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General Petraeus leaves a still deadly Afghanistan to head CIA
“He’s handing off Afghanistan better than what it was when he took control, but he didn’t get everything he needed and he got outmanoeuvred politically,” said Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
“While he achieved some things, he wasn’t able to achieve the wider goal of turning over security to the Afghan security forces from a position of strength,” Mr. Roggio added. “Instead he’s handing over from a position of weakness.”