The State Department began pushing back against an honest, clear statement of who was attacking us. The initial Afghanistan campaign was brilliant, lean, decisive, and gave us an exaggerated sense of how powerful we were and how weak our enemies were. Once the Iraq campaign began, resources were drained from Afghanistan and the military was stretched almost to the breaking point. Jake Tapper's book "The Outpost " details the tragic costs of an American military which is overextended and tries to accomplish more than it is resourced to achieve. The Iraq campaign might have been a brilliant success if Ambassador Bremer had not changed the mission in mid-war.

Source: Fox News September 09, 2016 20:26 UTC