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Thomas Massie

Posted on August 16, 2021

The chaos in Afghanistan is not a hard lesson about withdrawal, it's a hard lesson about nation building

I tweeted on Sunday:

Some are questioning whether this was the right time of the year to leave Afghanistan, but I’m questioning why it didn’t happen at least a decade ago.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 15, 2021

Twitter commenter Jonathan Miller put my remarks in exactly the right context:

This shouldn't be a hard lesson about withdrawals--it should be a hard lesson about nation building. https://t.co/yFdGUFzYb2
— Jonathan Miller (@jonathanmiser9) August 15, 2021

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