“I thought we could turn it around, obviously I was wrong,” Mullen, who served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, told ABC News on “This Week.”
“I think, in retrospect, yes, we should have (left) … I don’t think it was possible for us to leave abruptly right after killing bin Laden, but of course we could have it before we did,” he said. he said. dit.
According to Mullen, the U.S. struggle in Afghanistan is neither a success nor a failure.
“Complete failure, no. Clearly removing bin Laden had a big impact in terms of Al Qaeda. I’m not inclined to put it in itself, it was a success or it was a failure. I think we’re in some intermediate place, there are a lot of finger pointing, a lot of guilt, ”Mullen said.
Mullen added that there needs to be some introspection in the light of Afghanistan.
“We have to examine the military spirit of the exercise and we can understand why we often say yes to a mission when we should say no, no one wants the image of Saigon and obviously we ended up with another image of Saigon “.