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Flip-Flopping Romney Now Wants To Keep Troops In Afghanistan Indefinitely

Never mind what he said when he was running for president back in 2012, now the Utah Senator basically said we need to keep troops in Afghanistan forever during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper.

Here was Mittens promising to get our troops out by 2014:

Romney's full answer in 2012 presidential debate on withdrawing from Afghanistan https://t.co/sOwq34i4EO pic.twitter.com/iU8J0rLTSK

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) August 29, 2021

And here's Romney telling Tapper we should have never closed Bagram Air Base, attacking both the Trump and Biden administrations for withdrawing our troops, and arguing for a residual force of thousands to remain in the country under the guise of fighting terrorism.

Tapper asked Romney what his response is to those that say we've been there for 20 years, and the rapid collapse of the Afghan government and military is just more evidence that we were never going to stabilize the country, showing that leaving was the correct decision.

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