Afghanistan: Now The Longest U.S. War -- FOX News
After 104 months of combat, Afghanistan has now passed Vietnam as America’s longest war. Now some key American officials from over the years are weighing in on lessons learned and successes in this military campaign.
Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad served as the Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan, and then as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2003-2005. In terms of lessons learned, Khalilzad said, “We were attentive to the sanctuary for Al Qaeda but I don’t think we were attentive enough to sanctuary of Taliban in Pakistan, and from that problem largely grew this insurgency that's now threatening the coalition and Afghan forces.”
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