Petraeus: "I Don't Know" If My Iraq Policy Makes America Safer

WARNER: I hope in the recesses of your heart that you know that strategy will continue the casualties, stress on our forces, stress on military families, stress on all Americans. Are you able to say at this time, if we continue what you have laid before the Congress, this strategy, that if you continue, you are making America safer?

PETRAEUS: Sir, I believe that this is indeed the best course of action to achieve our objections in Iraq.

WARNER: Does that make America safer?

PETRAEUS: Sir, I don't know actually. I have not sat down and sorted out in my own mind. What I have focused on and been riveted on is how to accomplish the mission of the Multinational Force in Iraq.

Petraeus: "I Don't Know" If My Iraq Policy Makes America Safer - Politics on The Huffington Post

Is it worth $1-2 trillion to try a policy that even the military isn't sure about?

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