Afghanistan

“Well, and so just San Francisco and LA alone, I mean, four people, four homeless individuals die on the streets of LA every day. That death rate is higher than the death rate in Iraq and Afghanistan for soldiers.”

“That's why I was opposed to a complete withdrawal of our force from Afghanistan up until the, until the Taliban met their end of the political agreement, and if they weren't, then we should have stayed and maintained a presence and supported the Afghan army.”

“In Afghanistan, we wanted to get out. In Russia, we wanted to make sure their thousand nuclear warheads were contained, and we didn't want them to invade Europe, and a longer list for the Chinese Communist Party, but we were pretty clear about our expectations…”

“You could, there is no way you could take a country that doesn't want to move into the 21st century Into the 21st century, no matter how many schools you bought.”

“So so we then did a mobile payment system so that we could pay them, they got to keep it and we would prevent the warlords from taking it, and then we sort of were able to consistently get them on their side, so they wouldn't be doing IEDs against us.”

“There was this really brutal scandal in the Dawood Military Hospital, where The corruption ran all the way through the hospital to the point where the nurses at bedside were demanding payments from af, wounded Afghan soldiers in order to receive food and water…”