Read it again after dinner. Just read it a third time.

What's his point? If this it:
"...McCaffrey noted that "this will inevitably become a 3-to-10 year strategy to build a viable Afghan state with their own security force that can allow us to withdraw. It may well cost us an additional $300 billion and we are likely to suffer thousands more U.S. casualties." "
Is that supposed to be news?