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We can't stay in Afghanistan forever.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world.

We can stay in Afghanistan and the Middle East forever, and it won't make a difference.

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.