Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley acknowledges strategic setbacks and expresses deep remorse as he reflects on the conclusion of the two-decade-long conflict in Afghanistan.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley expressed"lots of regrets" about the way the US war in Afghanistan concluded and said it did not align with his desired outcome."It didn't end the way I wanted it. That didn't end the way any of us wanted it," Milley said in an interview with ABC News.
"Look, at — when the enemy is occupying your capital ... that's a strategic setback, strategic failure. And there's no way you can describe that as a strategic success.""And they prevailed in that capital for a lot of reasons that we don't have time to go over today. But, sure, lots of regrets by a lot of us from, from 9/11 on," he said.
Milley said wars are not lost in the last 10 days or 10 months but are the cumulative effect of lots of turns and twists over many. "And this war, when the final history is written, will prove to be the same. Lots of lessons learned. Lots of lefts when you should have gone right. And that'll all come out in due time. But lots of regrets, absolutely, 100 percent. Every single soldier I lost is a regret," he said.
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