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citizenship checks were not required or even permitted in federal elections.
Holmes reported to Graham that the data in the memos were a concoction, with a bullying tone and eighth grade writing.
“I was making the case over and over and over and over again that the Taliban was not Al Qaeda,” Biden said. The insurgency was part of an internal civil war and not the terrorist group threatening the United States.
Biden said he then asked Secretary of Defense Gates, “Let me ask you a simple question. If there were no Al Qaeda, would we be spending 100 plus billion dollars sending tens of thousands of men and women to Afghanistan? The response was ‘yes.’ That was a crystallizing moment.”
“We didn’t go to Afghanistan to make it a Jeffersonian democracy,” Blinken finally concluded.
“I don’t think he sees it as a comeback. He sees it as vengeance.”
history moves slowly but then often without warning lurches suddenly forward so it seemed impossible to stop.

