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'Didn't end the way I wanted': Gen. Mark Milley looks back at US exit from Afghanistan

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Gen. Mark Milley said in a new interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz that he has "lots of regrets" about how the United States' 20-year war in Afghanistan ended Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a new interview that he has "lots of regrets" about how the United States' 20-year co NFL ict in Afghanistan ended, telling ABC News' Martha Raddatz that "in the broader sense, the war was lost." August marked the two-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, when the Military and State Department worked to evacuate some 124,000 embassy personnel, American citizens and at-risk Afghans following the Taliban's takeover of the country at the end of America's longest war. In an interview for ABC's "This Week" that will air Sunday, Milley, who is retiring at the end of September, praised the courage of those involved while acknowledging the chaos that unfolded as the Afghan gov...