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ts or covert operatives on the ground. American drones have been sent to spy on or kill targets in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Somalia and Libya. Drones routinely patrol the Mexican border, and they provided aerial surveillance over Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakista
e on the same side here, trying to make the country safe." At the center of the debate was Obama's newly appointed CIA chief, Gen. David Petraeus. Petraeus sided with the White House, recognizing the need to strike a balance between maintaining a strong relationship with Pakistan and aggressively pursu
Sullivan said, "The terrorist threat has changed dramatically since we went to war in Afghanistan 20 years ago. Al Qaeda is in Yemen and Syria and Somalia. ISIS is across that border region in Iraq and Syria and in multiple countries in Africa, so to really protect this country from the terrorist threa
went against the Pentagon and the opinions of former generals like David Petraeus and Joseph Dunford." Blinken said, "I have great respect for Gen. Petraeus, Gen. Dunford, and others, but we had a very deliberate and fully informed process leading up to the decision by the President." The Washington Pos
Sullivan said, "The terrorist threat has changed dramatically since we went to war in Afghanistan 20 years ago. Al Qaeda is in Yemen and Syria and Somalia. ISIS is across that border region in Iraq and Syria and in multiple countries in Africa, so to really protect this country from the terrorist thre
went against the Pentagon and the opinions of former generals like David Petraeus and Joseph Dunford." Blinken said, "I have great respect for Gen. Petraeus, Gen. Dunford, and others, but we had a very deliberate and fully informed process leading up to the decision by the President." The Washington Pos
ty (which hasn't a=ded a penny to the national debt) when we're still paying for Korea an= Vietnam and Grenada and Panama and the first Gulf War and Somalia and the=Balkans and on and on. Estimates of just how much of our national de=t payments are from past military spending vary wildly. In 2007, econom
neral David Petraeus told him dur=ng the early days of the Iraq War and things were not going well. Wh=n asked whether he wished he had more troops. Petraeus was too polit=cally savvy to criticize the Donald Rumsfeld "light footprint*=8* strategy, so he deflected the question, answering it a different wa
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