"We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth"

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It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.