He wrote in Foreign Affairs in 07, "We must refocus our efforts on Afghanistan and Pakistan—the central front in our war against al Qaeda—so that we are confronting terrorists where their roots run deepest" The world cannot afford the price that will come due if Afghanistan slides back into chaos or alQaeda operates unchecked By contrast, the United States operations in Afghanistan have been conducted on near automatic pilot for twentyyears in which the American public, in whose name the war was being fought, appeared to be wholly disinterested in Consider that in Afghanistan, the US lost 3,936 private contractors, as compared to 2,448 members of the US military Our mission in Afghanistan was never supposed to have been nation building because we have significant vital interests in the world that we cannot afford to ignore I
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