Gen. David Petraeus: "You can't completely get out of endless wars"
Posted on AllSides October 29th, 2019
From The Left
Former CIA director and retired Gen. David Petraeus, who previously commanded coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, spoke with "60 Minutes'" John Dickerson on the "CBS This Morning" podcast about the state of ISIS in the wake of the killing of its longtime leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
While Petraeus said the death of al-Baghdadi is "a very significant blow" to the Islamic State, he emphasized, "what we're seeking is not the temporal defeat, not just one defeat or one senior leader. This is about the enduring defeat of the...