From Esquire:
“If you can’t define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we’re wasting our money, and we’re wasting our strategic resources,” Huntsman told Esquire as part of a long profile in its August issue. “It’s a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it’s now or years from now, we’ll have an incendiary situation… Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don’t think that serves our strategic interests.”
Huntsman also said that he wouldn’t have intervened in Libya — “We just can’t afford it” — and would seek to make serious cuts in the military’s budget. “If you can’t find anything there to cut, you’re not looking hard enough.”






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