The United States should have prioritized humanitarian efforts and taken in allies instead of wasting resources on an unwinnable nation-building war.

“the right thing to do is just to open our doors and say you know what we're here there's a draft right and the smart and the capable and the willing we're willing to basically bring uh inside of our borders so that they can work on our behalf”

The United States should have left Afghanistan earlier rather than engaging in a failed, long-term nation-building project that functioned as a wealth transfer to defense contractors.

“what were we still doing there we were engaged in this exercise of nation building which by the way we spent six trillion dollars on nation-building exercises in the middle east between afghanistan and iraq”