We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

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This quote highlights the speaker's perspective on the intentions behind the US military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. They assert that the primary motivation for going to war in these countries was not to forcibly establish democracy but rather due to perceiving the existing regimes as a threat to the United States. This implies that the purpose of intervention was driven by national security concerns over the potential harm posed by these regimes, rather than a direct objective of implementing democratic systems.

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