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Pro: Were the Afghan and Iraq wars worth it?
As in Vietnam, unilateral withdrawal by US plucks defeat from jaws of victory
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WASHINGTON — Former secretary of state, national security adviser and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger is, by all measures, a foreign policy heavyweight. At a recent black-tie dinner, he stood — stoop-shouldered and peering imperiously over his signature thick, black-frame glasses — and remarked: “Unilateral withdrawal is not victory.” Whom could he have been talking about?