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Afghanistan mission ‘was a failure’: Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal joins 'Influencers with Andy Serwer' to discuss the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

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- Afghanistan withdrawal, of course, it's-- it's still fresh on our minds, and you recently acknowledged that the mission there had been a failure. When did you realize it was a failure and what do you think specifically went wrong?

STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL: Yeah, and I think it was a failure, because obviously things didn't in the way we wanted. At the same time, I would say that Afghanistan changed a lot from 2001 to 2021, so I don't think those who serve there, either military or civilians or media, should take anything except a sense of pride. But because it didn't come out the way we want, we ought to spend some time thinking about it. We ought to learn from that.

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I think that the mission was doable. There is a certain narrative that people say was impossible, it was the graveyard of empires, I don't agree with that, because I believe that that would give us an excuse for not getting the mission done that I think we could have done and would have been good. I think the hard part, of course, was we were trying to not only create security in a troubled nation, which when we entered in 2001, had been at war essentially for 20 years. It was tattered as a society.

And so we try to create security, but we also tried to bring forward governance. And that really struggled. There's no getting around. It successive Afghan administrations struggled with legitimacy and corruption and other issues, and the Afghan people struggled to develop the confidence that a sovereign United Nations-- United Nation needs. So while I think it's sad the way it came out, I hope people take pride in what they tried to do.