Rachel Maddow

Strategically, the question that emerged from the debacles of the Iraq and Afghanistan war, the most potent questions that were never able to be answered by any U.S.

government, by any U.S.

president was, how does this end?

Strategically, do you understand how this ends, what the United States is both trying to do and whether what they're doing gets us anywhere closer to those aims?

It's exactly—what you're describing is exactly the reason the founders structured the division of labor in our government so that it was Congress that had to declare war, thus forcing the decision to be a difficult one and one that had to be—

had to have multiple levels of accountability for everybody taking part in it.

Colorado Congressman Jason Crow, combat veteran.

Sir, thank you for your time.

I really appreciate you being here tonight and for your insight.

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for long stretches of the speech that were essentially sort of violence porn.

He talked about people being covered in blood, gushing blood, blood pouring out of things.