Senators Clash With Nominee About Torture

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Originally Posted by queequeger

If we want to win this ugly war, we need to pick a friggin goal and work toward it. If the goal is creating a peaceful prosperous nation, we're simply not going to be able to do it unless we take our efforts up about 10 notches. If our goal, as it's now stated, is to make sure that Al Qa'ida doesn't have a foothold... we never needed to stay.

Which brings us right back to the question that UT could never answer. What is our strategic objective?