Most Honest Exchange in the Whole Movie
Happens when Glen and Pat are on the plane to Copenhagen to meet Obama.
Pat: How do you think this ends?
Glen: Simple. We either win it or we lose it.
Pat: Yeah, I don't know. I think I'm gonna call bullshit on that, Glen. All the winning we were ever gonna do, we did in the first six months. And since then we've just been making a mess. And that's all it was ever gonna be. You're not here to win. You're here to clean up the mess.
The Taliban are an awful, awful bunch. And, like all insurgents, they always had the advantage of time. All they had to do was wait. There's no amount of blood or money that can reform a country that doesn't want to be reformed.