Retired Admiral Confesses To Afghanistan War Stupidity

"Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military officer under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who strongly supported the “nation-building” war policy in Afghanistan, now says we should have pulled out our troops a decade ago, soon after Osama bin Laden was killed."

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[specops]

Hello TYT, great work. Keep it up. 👍

[lawrencemckeon]

George W Bush broke a lot of eggs, and made a terrible omelette.

[wtf_usa]

Keep at it guys! The Military Industrial Complex needs to GO. In fact, we need to get ALL $$ out of politics or things will NEVER get better. 😡

[patrick-paper]

Spot on. Especially how the entire war was more a financial arrangement hypocritically justified by such social concerns as women's issues.

[tonycastaneda]

THAT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT GOT READY AND STAYED FOR OIL PROFITS.

[brenth]

Nation building in a country with Afghanistan's geography and horrendous geo-political boundaries was always a terrible idea.

[apexkevv]

Not only a mistake but a defeat. It’s like Saigon on steroids.

[alamaric]

"How many troops should we have kept in Afghanistan to maintain control?" -Couric

Answer: None. It is not our responsibility to maintain another country's government. However we could provide help and aid if wanted.

[grapeshot]

Yeah I had a cousin I served multiple tours over there as a Navy corpsman attached to a marine rifle company and he told me it was basically going around in circles. I served in the United States Army in the Gulf in the 90s we did have some type of mission statement.

[demarcusfaulkner]

We spent 20 years and 2 trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives for this war . That's more than enough reason to go.

[xuto]

"Retired"

No cookies if you don't say it when you're in power and influence.

[hadara]

Our country learned NOTHING from Vietnam...

[RandomLBS]

the mistake was ever going there in the first place .

that place has been messed up for over a 1000 yrs. it will never NOT be messed up

[thajarin]

Every argument I've seen for staying in afghanistan is based on a sunk cost fallacy. There is no need to keep throwing good money after bad... It's time to be out... it's past time to be out...

[dougolsen]

...but she fails to ask "was creating Bin Laden a mistake?"

[daihunter]

The light at the end of the tunnel, is, as usual, the train headed straight for you!

[mrbag]

Note from Military Industrial Complex: Record profits, Shareholders very happy, Our corporate board is making tens of millions of $$$$ yearly, the politicians are good puppets keeping the war machine turning nearly 20 years in Afghanistan. Mission Accomplished!

[anonymousbiscuit]

$7.8 billion spent since 2008 on buildings and vehicles. Only $343.2 million worth of buildings and vehicles were spent. U.S. agencies responsible for construction didn’t even ask the Afghans if they wanted or needed new buildings they ordered built, or if they had the technical ability to keep them running,

[lyannatargaryen]

When do we get to build our own nation?

[adamarlem]

Mistake of being there to give a false hope and cannot afford M4A. It is a culture thing, Afghanistan 🇦🇫 is 1/53 Muslim countries and this is how they do.The BIG mistake was not handling BinLaden by the Rule of Law⚖️⚖️ because Right and Justice MATTER ✅