Petraeus, who previously served as the top U.S. commander in Aghanistan, said the decision to withdraw U.S. troops was 'a serious mistake.'
Petraeus said the Taliban's advances had shown that the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan was"a serious mistake."
"Whether it is the Taliban taking over the country or it's the kind of civil war that we saw in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet, post-Soviet government, there are no good outcomes here. In fact, there's nothing more than horrible outcomes unless we are willing to acknowledge that this is not going as apparently the more optimistic projections laid out, and then take stock of the situation and re-examine what we could do.
But he noted:"Remember what happened when Syria melted down? We used to describe it as a 'geopolitical Chernobyl', the meltdown of a country that spewed violence, extremism, instability and a tsunami of refugees."He said:"In this case, the results cannot be sugar-coated... there was a saying that we occasionally used for really bad days and I said, look if it's a really bad day in Baghdad or Kabul, just go out to the podium and say we had a terrible day.
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