Failure of leadership

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Gen. Stanley McChrystal talks with host Marco Werman about the lack of US leadership today. McChrystal calls the decision to send thousands of US troops to the border “political” and says the Pentagon “shouldn’t even send the idea that this is going to defend the walls of the Alamo.”

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