Do not change the course established by the Trump administration for withdrawing U.S. service members from Afghanistan.
I could not disagree more with the congressionally appointed Afghanistan Study Group that recommended reversing on the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The panel just made the military industrial complex very happy and covered the butts of Congress, many generals and officers and senior federal civilians for making nearly 20 years of bad decisions.
To the “think tank” experts, pundits and members of Congress, senior civilian and senior military officers who say, oh, our withdrawal from Afghanistan will make America more dangerous and susceptible to terrorist attack, I say, there are no credible assessments that support this conclusion.
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For quite some time now, the filling of body bags and hospital beds has not been justified, and nobody is being held accountable for that.
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As a retired general officer, with 10 tours in Afghanistan, I include myself in these failures. We have lionized the generals when we should have lionized our men and women who did the work under poor policy and strategy and an inadequate operational approach.
It is time now to draw the right lessons from the experience, if only to honor the sacrifices made by the service members who fought there.
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