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dilla berger with veterans for rethinking afghanistan. when we come back we'll cover the hottest movie of the summer at least for us libertarian and rand nerds atlas shrugged part one will be talking a professor that while or from paradigm in sunny southern california and sit down with some young activists about how this decades old novel is exerting that new influence you're watching adam vs the man states of. the world. and yet. like drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to put it through good sort of if you can maybe who can you trust no one will if you know you'll do with a global reach city where we had a state controlled capitalism a school that when nobody dares to ask we do you are a key question morning. welcome back to out on versus the ma'am we'd like to do something with our friday so that there is something fun to look forward to on the weekend so tonight to celebrate the release of the new film atlas shrugged we'll be discussing the intersection of movies and politics starting with produ
dilla berger with veterans for rethinking afghanistan. when we come back we'll cover the hottest movie of the summer at least for us libertarian and rand nerds atlas shrugged part one will be talking a professor that while or from paradigm in sunny southern california and sit down with some young activists about how this decades old novel is exerting that new influence you're watching adam vs the man states of. the world. and yet. like drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who...
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at stake for americans if a shutdown really takes place plus i think you're not footing the bill for afghanistan think again i want to break down the actual figures that you and i are shelling out and you warn anybody and if the war costs don't make you sick there's always seafood to do the job especially if it's coming from japan we're going to talk about how that country's radiation leak could hurt the global food chain for all of us. are right you need to know this when the clock strikes midnight on friday april eighth it is now all but certain that americans will experience their first federal government shutdown in fifteen years and president barack obama is meeting with congressional leaders this evening in a last ditch effort to come to a deal on the budget as both sides remain billions of dollars apart and odds over where to find savings the house republicans have proposed put posted a clock on their website counting down the days hours minutes and seconds until the government shuts down i mean i wouldn't be surprised if these guys are stocking up on confetti and noisemakers while they'r
at stake for americans if a shutdown really takes place plus i think you're not footing the bill for afghanistan think again i want to break down the actual figures that you and i are shelling out and you warn anybody and if the war costs don't make you sick there's always seafood to do the job especially if it's coming from japan we're going to talk about how that country's radiation leak could hurt the global food chain for all of us. are right you need to know this when the clock strikes...
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my guess is the presidential special envoy for afghanistan said you have a couple. nato neutral operation in afghanistan has been going on even longer now than the soviet campaign there in the eighty's but the book says in just three years it will hand over to afghan forces in several areas of the country however security and stability are still rare in many regions of afghanistan the wave of violence is now its highest since the taliban regime was toppled ten years ago this makes some military experts say the withdrawal of new. troops is premature warfare must continue. mr koppel thank you for joining us on the show so well first of all. again a stand is in the news today once again because foreigners have faced outrage in this country after a preacher in florida has burned a book of koran and a jury in one of his ceremonies in the united states in the noise city of mazar e sharif people have stormed the u.n. clamp down they killed three staff members and killed four guards is does that mean the situation in the country is getting out of control completely can you
my guess is the presidential special envoy for afghanistan said you have a couple. nato neutral operation in afghanistan has been going on even longer now than the soviet campaign there in the eighty's but the book says in just three years it will hand over to afghan forces in several areas of the country however security and stability are still rare in many regions of afghanistan the wave of violence is now its highest since the taliban regime was toppled ten years ago this makes some military...
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right now we're spending 1% of gdp in afghanistan so we won't attack from afghanistan. the money is worth the than the money will go down as we draw down. of $15 trillion economy, $118 billion of whatever it is is a serious amount of money but not a game change returns of debt and other issues. in terms of painting the offense, 46 countries in afghanistan as part of a coalition. and canadian and danish troops died at a higher rate if you adjust for population than americans. i want to attach myself to many points in terms of the data. one dated point and want to answer which is the more likely to be murdered in washington d.c. than to be killed in the afghan war. the war in afghanistan by historical standards and absolute standards your six times more likely did be killed in new orleans than the war in afghanistan where 2800 civilians died last year. when you adjust for population as jim mentioned more likely to be killed in iraq. one final point on the counter terrorism point. we tried the counter-terrorism approach and it was found wanting. the point of where we are t
right now we're spending 1% of gdp in afghanistan so we won't attack from afghanistan. the money is worth the than the money will go down as we draw down. of $15 trillion economy, $118 billion of whatever it is is a serious amount of money but not a game change returns of debt and other issues. in terms of painting the offense, 46 countries in afghanistan as part of a coalition. and canadian and danish troops died at a higher rate if you adjust for population than americans. i want to attach...
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secretary-general to afghanistan. the ambassador, basically, was in iraq from 2000 until -- [laughter] the ambassador was there from 2000 to 2008. he's had -- if you look at all of the places the u.n. has tried to broker peace, you'll find that ambassador vendrell has been in just about all of the places as a special representative of the secretary general. east timor, cambodia, new guinea and myanmar. and he's also been involved in the dealing with personal representative to the central american peace process pack in the '80s -- back in the '80s. that was an awfully big issue. the second member of our panel, dr. marvin weinbaum, who has had, basically, careers. he's been a professor, he's worked in the state department in the bureau of intelligence and research, and now he's a scholar in residence at the middle east institute here in washington. the author of many, many books and hundreds of articles dealing with part of the world. our final panel is steve coll a contributor at the new york magazine. he spent 20 year
secretary-general to afghanistan. the ambassador, basically, was in iraq from 2000 until -- [laughter] the ambassador was there from 2000 to 2008. he's had -- if you look at all of the places the u.n. has tried to broker peace, you'll find that ambassador vendrell has been in just about all of the places as a special representative of the secretary general. east timor, cambodia, new guinea and myanmar. and he's also been involved in the dealing with personal representative to the central...
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-afghanistan relationship document. the nato handover i think is going to be conducted in a different forum but i do think the reason they handover has been so smooth is that the political situation on the ground changed fairly dramatically by the end of 2008 in iraq and allowed for the smooth transition and drawdown we've seen since then. it is going to be important that not just that the capabilities of the afghan governance and security forces improve between now and 2014 but also that the taliban becomes less capable over that same time period. we're doing some pretty good work in making that happen. >> if i would add, it is not just the security agreement but in iraq also there was a separate strategic framework agreement which sent the signal of enduring support and cooperation on a range of issues including police and security work and the state department and also economic development in a range of things. the state department, now the ball is starting to be in their court especially if this transition is execut
-afghanistan relationship document. the nato handover i think is going to be conducted in a different forum but i do think the reason they handover has been so smooth is that the political situation on the ground changed fairly dramatically by the end of 2008 in iraq and allowed for the smooth transition and drawdown we've seen since then. it is going to be important that not just that the capabilities of the afghan governance and security forces improve between now and 2014 but also that the...
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we have a marvelous example of a dressmaker in afghanistan. a sneak preview of the new cd from raphael saadiq. hasformer tony! toni! tonÉ! gone on to claim as a solo artist. raphael saadiq will give us a preview of his cd. we havare glad to have joined us for gayle tzemach lemmon and raphael saadiq. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, nationwide insurance is happy to help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: gayle tzemach lemmon is the deputy director of the council of foreign relations women in foreign policy program. she is also the author of "the dressmaker of khair khana," one remarkab
we have a marvelous example of a dressmaker in afghanistan. a sneak preview of the new cd from raphael saadiq. hasformer tony! toni! tonÉ! gone on to claim as a solo artist. raphael saadiq will give us a preview of his cd. we havare glad to have joined us for gayle tzemach lemmon and raphael saadiq. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you...
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commander in afghanistan. like general petraeus and of course he was up about a week ago, i am today cautiously optimistic about afghanistan. i see progress. as dave said it's fragile, but i believe we are moving forward in the right direction. today we have a coalition of 49 troop contributing nations, largest coalition in history and it is making i think measurable progress in the transition to ask him a security operations. so i can talk more about that in the question-and-answer period, but i did want to register my sense of optimism -- cautious optimism for progress in afghanistan today. in terms of partnership, i think it's a very important aspect of the we do a u.s. european command. 51 nations who are part of our military to military relationships. last year for example we did 33 major exercises come engaging about 50,000 folks. we do a significant amount of training across the spectrum. senator mccain mentioned georgette. i think the partnership building this heart of why there are 45,000 non-us troop
commander in afghanistan. like general petraeus and of course he was up about a week ago, i am today cautiously optimistic about afghanistan. i see progress. as dave said it's fragile, but i believe we are moving forward in the right direction. today we have a coalition of 49 troop contributing nations, largest coalition in history and it is making i think measurable progress in the transition to ask him a security operations. so i can talk more about that in the question-and-answer period, but...
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that's i think the main challenge for the people of afghanistan, as well as friends of afghanistan, the international community through the united states. it is now because he it's part of the problems. in terms of the transition and transition of security responsibilities through the afghan side, it will be difficult to envision that the transition will take place is going to take place timely. negotiations with the taliban and consolation, that in itself has not been defined by anybody -- everybody is talking about it and nobody has worked out how it works in real term in a situation where taliban are thinking of bringing the state down and the state institutions rather than getting ready to be accommodated. >> charlie: so your recommendation to the united states would be what? >> i would say that rather than jumping into the idea of reconciling with the taliban on the idea of helping afghanistan to establish a democratic system in a function of government try to stand by the process and also regain the trust of the people of afghanistan because in today's situation, the lack of trust
that's i think the main challenge for the people of afghanistan, as well as friends of afghanistan, the international community through the united states. it is now because he it's part of the problems. in terms of the transition and transition of security responsibilities through the afghan side, it will be difficult to envision that the transition will take place is going to take place timely. negotiations with the taliban and consolation, that in itself has not been defined by anybody --...
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in both cases of pakistan and afghanistan. and that we were in the midst of programs that instead of being parallel, were actually raising standards and stiffening the spines, if you will, providing a sort of skeleton to support local development. and so for example, in the national agriculture program we are working with the ministry at the village level. it's not a parallel system. it's intrinsically linked to the ministry. so there's another program that was mentioned which was an education program. that is coming to an end, not because we can't continue to run it, and do a good job at a, i think we could, but because the sense is the time of the ministry of education to step forward and take that on even though all my code stepping the ministry of education cannot take that object to we've talked to ambassador about this and we talk to folks at a.i.d. about this. but i think that the pressure to shift right now is quite dominant stuff let me ask either mr. mcgarry or mr. bowers a further question on when we oversee an elec
in both cases of pakistan and afghanistan. and that we were in the midst of programs that instead of being parallel, were actually raising standards and stiffening the spines, if you will, providing a sort of skeleton to support local development. and so for example, in the national agriculture program we are working with the ministry at the village level. it's not a parallel system. it's intrinsically linked to the ministry. so there's another program that was mentioned which was an education...
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there were soldiers killed in afghanistan under george bush this was the entire era from two thousand and one to two thousand eight six hundred thirty and they were soldiers killed in afghanistan under obama in the last two years eight hundred seven tell me this war is going well. and that's the that's the last horse ok so let me get back to us so we were we're likely now to spend over one trillion dollars one trillion dollars in a country with a pre-invasion g.d.p. of two billion i just think about this for a minute the entire economy of afghanistan before we invaded that was was two billion dollars a year average income of the average afghan citizen was three hundred dollars a year two billion was their annual g.d.p. the g.d.p. of the state of wyoming is thirty seven billion dollars the g.d.p. of the city of chicago is five hundred seventy four billion dollars the chicago police car is thirteen thousand employees and the d.o.d. that a car a defense does is we've got thirty four thousand dead civilians in afghanistan you know if we just took that one trillion dollars that we're spend
there were soldiers killed in afghanistan under george bush this was the entire era from two thousand and one to two thousand eight six hundred thirty and they were soldiers killed in afghanistan under obama in the last two years eight hundred seven tell me this war is going well. and that's the that's the last horse ok so let me get back to us so we were we're likely now to spend over one trillion dollars one trillion dollars in a country with a pre-invasion g.d.p. of two billion i just think...
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policy on the afghanistan war. we have a very dynamic session with the voices and people that captured not only, i think, the political spectrum, but also the thematic a spectrum of people who have been thinking hard about these issues. i think every one of the people and panelists today is -- the panel, subsequent panel, is somebody who has put themselves out on what i call the constant peer-review process. someone who is objecting themselves to both -- subject himself to both of the applause and critique of many people trying to think about this question of what is the appropriate role of the united states and afghanistan, what is our responsibility, where should we go? we have this morning of every recession. the afghanistan war -- we have this morning of every great session. "the afghanistan war -- a cost benefit review of america's strategic and economic position." my friend thomas pickering, and ambassador to some nations out there. -- to so many nations out there. he was undersecretary of state he was recent
policy on the afghanistan war. we have a very dynamic session with the voices and people that captured not only, i think, the political spectrum, but also the thematic a spectrum of people who have been thinking hard about these issues. i think every one of the people and panelists today is -- the panel, subsequent panel, is somebody who has put themselves out on what i call the constant peer-review process. someone who is objecting themselves to both -- subject himself to both of the applause...
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-afghanistan relationship document. the nato handover i think is going to be conducted in a different forum but i do think the reason they handover has been so smooth is that the political situation on the ground changed fairly dramatically by the end of 2008 in iraq and allowed for the smooth transition and drawdown we've seen since then. it is going to be important that not just that the capabilities of the afghan governance and security forces improve between now and 2014 but also that the taliban becomes less capable over that same time period. we're doing some pretty good work in making that happen. >> if i would add, it is not just the security agreement but in iraq also there was a separate strategic framework agreement which sent the signal of enduring support and cooperation on a range of issues including police and security work and the state department and also economic development in a range of things. the state department, now the ball is starting to be in their court especially if this transition is execut
-afghanistan relationship document. the nato handover i think is going to be conducted in a different forum but i do think the reason they handover has been so smooth is that the political situation on the ground changed fairly dramatically by the end of 2008 in iraq and allowed for the smooth transition and drawdown we've seen since then. it is going to be important that not just that the capabilities of the afghan governance and security forces improve between now and 2014 but also that the...
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when they tell that warfare in afghanistan has been going on for ten years already but seeing little success some of it so loyalist allies like the former british foreign secretary david miliband are criticizing that they no longer believe in a military solution and say it's now time the diplomats should step in but is it possible to deal with taliban terrorists in a language other than against the russians should now the answer they tried everything my guest is the presidential special envoy for afghanistan so you're a couple. of. nato neutral to ration again a stand has been going on even longer now than the saw this campaign there in the eighty's but the book says in just three years it will hand over to afghan forces in several areas of the country however security and stability are still rare in many regions of afghanistan the wave of violence is now its highest since the taliban regime was toppled ten years ago this makes some military experts say the withdrawal of needed troops is premature warfare must continue. mr koppel thank you for joining us on the show so well first of
when they tell that warfare in afghanistan has been going on for ten years already but seeing little success some of it so loyalist allies like the former british foreign secretary david miliband are criticizing that they no longer believe in a military solution and say it's now time the diplomats should step in but is it possible to deal with taliban terrorists in a language other than against the russians should now the answer they tried everything my guest is the presidential special envoy...
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policy in the afghanistan war, does afghanistan today contain or leverage u.s. power? we really have a very dynamic session with voices and people that capture not only i think the political spectrum, but the people thinking hard about these issues. i think every one of the people in the panel today is someone who essentially put themselves out in what i call the kind of constant peer review process and someone subjecting themselves to both the critique of many people trying to think about this question of what is the appropriate role of united states in afghanistan and what is the responsibility, and where should we go? we have this morning a great session, the cost benefit review, and friend and ambassador tom pickerring and decided to give him the world. he was ambassador to united nations, russia, and so many others, and he was most recently cochair of the century foundation international task force in afghanistan entitled afghanistan negotiating peace. this book is available to all of you. pick it up outside. i hope you read it. it's one of the most important cont
policy in the afghanistan war, does afghanistan today contain or leverage u.s. power? we really have a very dynamic session with voices and people that capture not only i think the political spectrum, but the people thinking hard about these issues. i think every one of the people in the panel today is someone who essentially put themselves out in what i call the kind of constant peer review process and someone subjecting themselves to both the critique of many people trying to think about this...
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the first section is afghanistan, and it's called koppel hi. for obvious reasons of anybody who has been there, and the second section is called pakistan. not just because it is kind of wacky and pakistan but also because i kind of feel like what we've done over there with our foreign policy is the edgy gimmick game of whack-a-mole when we come in one place and hit the insurgents and they pop out at another place. every single chapter is named for a different song in my ipod. so that is another part of the taliban shovel, not just going back and forth across the border. so this chapter is called the deadbeat club. it's toward the end of the book and i'm with my translator/fixers/s. friend, farouk. as soon as i landed in kabul farouk nitro to the defense ministry to ask about negotiations with the taliban. farouk parked the car. we started walking. i had always regarded this long path leading halfhearted practicing afghan soldiers as my own personal march towards sexual harassment. i thought happy thoughts. farouk talk to way past the first chec
the first section is afghanistan, and it's called koppel hi. for obvious reasons of anybody who has been there, and the second section is called pakistan. not just because it is kind of wacky and pakistan but also because i kind of feel like what we've done over there with our foreign policy is the edgy gimmick game of whack-a-mole when we come in one place and hit the insurgents and they pop out at another place. every single chapter is named for a different song in my ipod. so that is another...
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the war in afghanistan is not about afghanistan. it is ultimately about pakistan. when asked what to do about pakistan, we fall apart. we have posturing and in to threats. i do not have any solutions to this. i am just highlighting a problem. i am not an expert in pakistan. when it comes to how to establish regional political order, we are making the mistake of assuming that the problem facing the area is the insurgency. both of these are only single actors in a larger complex network of political interests, organizations, and actors. when we look at the four major parties to the war that the ambassador mentioned earlier, looking at one group like the former north alliance bloc, there represent separate competing groups that are likely to start killing each other at the moment we lead and stop providing us with security. that has nothing to do with the insurgency. a huge part of the instability has nothing to do with the taliban and everything to do with opium. that is not part of the insurgency. that is not part of al qaeda. there are connections, but there are in
the war in afghanistan is not about afghanistan. it is ultimately about pakistan. when asked what to do about pakistan, we fall apart. we have posturing and in to threats. i do not have any solutions to this. i am just highlighting a problem. i am not an expert in pakistan. when it comes to how to establish regional political order, we are making the mistake of assuming that the problem facing the area is the insurgency. both of these are only single actors in a larger complex network of...
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would there be a large role in the post conflict afghanistan for your organization? >> i would hope no matter what afghanistan would people to stay and continue working we were in the taliban area, and we did is we had supported schools for schools that were hidden away in people's houses. now, he is completely correct that there is a lot more afghan children being educated today than there were in those times, and we could reach far more and do a lot more out in the open. but i would like to hope that our folks would be able to continue working no matter what the government that shapes out of time is. >> let me ask in your report in asking this for the panel but only one person would need to answer. there's a case study under impartiality of helmand province i'm curious if the organizations here did that or i can just talk to one of these come should i talk to you about it? why was impressed, and pressed understates it. helmand province is a terrible place in the world not just because of the conflict, is the heroine capital of the world. it's not just in the war in
would there be a large role in the post conflict afghanistan for your organization? >> i would hope no matter what afghanistan would people to stay and continue working we were in the taliban area, and we did is we had supported schools for schools that were hidden away in people's houses. now, he is completely correct that there is a lot more afghan children being educated today than there were in those times, and we could reach far more and do a lot more out in the open. but i would...
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a lot of stuff going on in afghanistan. but there's been meet with north korea between north korea sending signals it will begin misbehaving again because it sees us as militarily overextended. and by the way, there will be no strategy at all to get north korea to give up its nuclear weapons system because we just invaded a country that had nuclear weapons, and systems and programs. so the distance is that now have become huge for other governments in the future, the whole calculus has changed. answer negotiations with north korea to get rid of nuclear arms, fundamentally don't make sense. i just want to bring this up as well. i think it's important -- >> it was an important year. that's when iran stopped working on a nuclear weapon. and i thought i heard you admit that, but i guess i was wrong. >> two points. sorry about that. gadhafi, mubarak. i can keep these muslim names straight. and no, i -- liberals were wrong about ahmadinejad giving up his nuclear program. remember, that's another thing they lied about. we kept hea
a lot of stuff going on in afghanistan. but there's been meet with north korea between north korea sending signals it will begin misbehaving again because it sees us as militarily overextended. and by the way, there will be no strategy at all to get north korea to give up its nuclear weapons system because we just invaded a country that had nuclear weapons, and systems and programs. so the distance is that now have become huge for other governments in the future, the whole calculus has changed....
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which basically gave me two lessons about afghanistan. the first was the hospitality and incredible generosity of afghans, and the second was the large rolls of $100 bills. eventually, i was assigned as the south asia bureau chief for the chicago tribune. it was an assignment i took with excitement, and i figured i would stay there two years, three years at most. but i fell in love with these places, and i grew to care about everybody i worked with from the translator who, basically, guided me through everything in afghanistan so my driver in pakistan who would follow me around and pick up my passports when, you know, i had several of them, when they fell out of my bag. and he would just, you know, he's always like, you're leaving money in the car, you're going to be taken advantage of. but he always had my back. as the years went by i became more and more dispitted with the direction that -- disspiritted that i saw these countries taking, with the lack of attention in what was happening. and i really felt almost heart broken. and at the
which basically gave me two lessons about afghanistan. the first was the hospitality and incredible generosity of afghans, and the second was the large rolls of $100 bills. eventually, i was assigned as the south asia bureau chief for the chicago tribune. it was an assignment i took with excitement, and i figured i would stay there two years, three years at most. but i fell in love with these places, and i grew to care about everybody i worked with from the translator who, basically, guided me...
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ambassador to afghanistan former general carl icahn very who we know has. had a cool relationship with the obama white house and also a cool relationship with petraeus looks like president obama is basically cleaning house of anyone who might question his very aggressive foreign policy which has some people in washington here saying all obama is really he's the third term of george w. bush and some people say the fourth term of george h.w. bush do you think he just followed the goalpost could change with afghanistan there they are saying come hell or high water the americans will be out of afghanistan by twenty fourteen but do you think maybe a change in tact there a change in leadership as such would make any difference to that. i think with petraeus says the cia director we're going to see a lot more games being played in a covert way and in afghanistan and elsewhere as is known to be an arch war hawk a neoconservative and now he's going to be heading out the u.s. central intelligence agency there's a there's a dark clouds looming i'm afraid for us involv
ambassador to afghanistan former general carl icahn very who we know has. had a cool relationship with the obama white house and also a cool relationship with petraeus looks like president obama is basically cleaning house of anyone who might question his very aggressive foreign policy which has some people in washington here saying all obama is really he's the third term of george w. bush and some people say the fourth term of george h.w. bush do you think he just followed the goalpost could...
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military strategy in afghanistan. two panels will look, first, at counterinsurgency and then options to negotiate peace in afghanistan. this is expected to last until about 3 this afternoon. >> i'm rudy deleon, senior vice president here at the center for american progress. this is the first of two panels that we're going to be doing on afghanistan today, and it's part of a series. it's april 2011, we're coming up on the ten-year mark of this fall in afghanistan, and so i think it's a time both to focus on current activities in the theater, but also to start asking questions in terms of the lessons learned. the ten-year milestone of combat activities is a bit unique in terms of the armed forces of the united states in terms of time and length. and so we have with our program here today, part one will look at counterinsurgency and some of the lessons learned on the security side. and then panel number two, which will be chaired and moderated by our colleague at the center, dr. larry korb and jeff lawyer rememberty of t
military strategy in afghanistan. two panels will look, first, at counterinsurgency and then options to negotiate peace in afghanistan. this is expected to last until about 3 this afternoon. >> i'm rudy deleon, senior vice president here at the center for american progress. this is the first of two panels that we're going to be doing on afghanistan today, and it's part of a series. it's april 2011, we're coming up on the ten-year mark of this fall in afghanistan, and so i think it's a...
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and joining me now for more take a look bear tell our team blogger and member of rethink afghanistan and jake you were part of that hearing yesterday the christan president covered in her report i'm curious if you think that the dialogue is changing in washington because this was a bipartisan member of lawmakers are both sides really starting to get serious and actually look at cutting defense budget they are and they have to be there or their establishment members the of the conservative movement the sort of pro hawkish military folks they won't say a thing about this but this far as the freshman class the tea party class it is at the forefront of their agenda to balance the budget because that's what they got elected to do so if it includes slashing difference in wars and military bases except it is there the republican base of the tea party class is very serious about cutting the spent these budgets if that's the case the tea party is the conventional wisdom has played a major role in this budget debate with the republican party yet we don't see any calls for cuts to defense spend
and joining me now for more take a look bear tell our team blogger and member of rethink afghanistan and jake you were part of that hearing yesterday the christan president covered in her report i'm curious if you think that the dialogue is changing in washington because this was a bipartisan member of lawmakers are both sides really starting to get serious and actually look at cutting defense budget they are and they have to be there or their establishment members the of the conservative...
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you need to know this violent anti-american demonstrations flared up all around afghanistan over the weekend and three days afghans are taking to the streets ostensibly in response to florida pastor terry jones decision to set the koran ablaze back in march twentieth last year i confronted pastor jones about his plans for nine eleven to burn a qur'an on my radio show here's what he and i both had to say. i want to know why you're so committed dr terry jones why you. or so committed to doing the work of osama bin laden who said before nine eleven and then and it's here it's like nine eleven was in his mind designed to create a war between christianity and islam why sir are you on osama bin laden side and why are you doing his work we feel that the koran eventually leads to a radical hate against really at least two three zero zero zero zero we are a similar very clear message. that all we have the best things i guarantee you is that you are a coward who is doing osama bin laden's work and exactly what he predicted and exactly where you are if you look if you sometimes the radio get a
you need to know this violent anti-american demonstrations flared up all around afghanistan over the weekend and three days afghans are taking to the streets ostensibly in response to florida pastor terry jones decision to set the koran ablaze back in march twentieth last year i confronted pastor jones about his plans for nine eleven to burn a qur'an on my radio show here's what he and i both had to say. i want to know why you're so committed dr terry jones why you. or so committed to doing the...
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i agree -- i mean, in afghanistan. i agree you should not give it away, you know, right in the beginning, but if you send a signal that you don't keep that agreement, particularly where there's people in iraq who didn't want you there, i think that's going to have an impact on the negotiations, so i don't think anybody's focused on that at this point. >> thank you, larry? >> gentleman in the fourth row. >> i'm joseph, a private citizen from chicago. my question regards the much wanted and now never heard about northern alliance. they are armed, assume they are armed, what is their role in any fighting on conflict with the taliban, and also has there been any good effort or good success in creating the afghan security forces with a larger element to them? >> okay. in the front row here please. >> i'm dan caldwell. i want to ask dr. korb and ambassador vendrell what the biggest surprises were for you in your service here on this commission. >> and all the way in the back? >> one question i have is that -- >> name. >> bil
i agree -- i mean, in afghanistan. i agree you should not give it away, you know, right in the beginning, but if you send a signal that you don't keep that agreement, particularly where there's people in iraq who didn't want you there, i think that's going to have an impact on the negotiations, so i don't think anybody's focused on that at this point. >> thank you, larry? >> gentleman in the fourth row. >> i'm joseph, a private citizen from chicago. my question regards the...
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rather the people of afghanistan. into this situation the people are thinking, the afghans are thinking, what happens they will be supportive of mr. karzai and his government and the parliament of the people of afghanistan. i'm not saying that this is the actual case but this is the perception of the people of afghanistan. and that needs to be changed. >> charlie: the dilemma for the united states and the nato countries is that essentially they have targeted 2014 at which time of again governments will reach a point where they can withdraw, correct? >> that's right. that's this target. >> charlie: that's this target. hamid karzai will be president until 2014. and he's going to be mainly responsible for the government. so it's a huge dilemma, is it not? >> that's right. he will be the president until 2014. as i mentioned earlier, i'm pretty sure that he will make attempts in order to stay beyond 2014. according to the constitution of afghanistan, you can't do that, but he might just create an urgency situation or resor
rather the people of afghanistan. into this situation the people are thinking, the afghans are thinking, what happens they will be supportive of mr. karzai and his government and the parliament of the people of afghanistan. i'm not saying that this is the actual case but this is the perception of the people of afghanistan. and that needs to be changed. >> charlie: the dilemma for the united states and the nato countries is that essentially they have targeted 2014 at which time of again...
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that has grown a lot as we go into afghanistan. we have gone from two million pounds of air drop in 2005 to sixty million pounds last year and we are headed tours 1 hundred million pounds of air drop. we want to get to the operating base and make sure they get what they need without putting convoys at unnecessary risk. we are pushing very hard to be able to have some of these intermodal multi modal locations legal places like rhoda, places like djibouti. as i look to the pacific the same thing. if i have those places where i can get large stuffed into and have theater response whether it is the joint high-speed vessel whether c-17s do an airdrop or whether that is even as we look at hybrid airships if we get to the point where we get that stuff to these major ports by surface and have options for the theater commanders depending on the nature we really will have gone a long way. that is the part i am looking at because big dollar savings and very fast. that includes not only are positioning on the land so you can imagine giving tho
that has grown a lot as we go into afghanistan. we have gone from two million pounds of air drop in 2005 to sixty million pounds last year and we are headed tours 1 hundred million pounds of air drop. we want to get to the operating base and make sure they get what they need without putting convoys at unnecessary risk. we are pushing very hard to be able to have some of these intermodal multi modal locations legal places like rhoda, places like djibouti. as i look to the pacific the same thing....
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no, not back to libya. >> rose: afghanistan. >> yeah, i would go back to afghanistan. i feel very comfortable in afghanistan. i've been working there many years. >> rose: and dow this because? >> because i think people need to see what what's happening. and i do think that it is a unique time in our history where the united states is fighting two wars at once. we are have troops on the ground. u.s. soldiers are getting maimed and killed. we need to see what is happening. why are we there? you know, i can't judge that but i can certainly provide a picture of what's happening on the ground. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> thank you so much. >> rose: great to see you. >> thank you. >> we turn now to the week's economic news. on wednesday federal reserve chairman ben bernanke gave his first scheduled press conference in the central bank's history. it followed a two-day meeting on monetary policy. the chairman's remarks about inflation were particularly watched. >> if inflation persists or if inflation expectations begin to move, then there is no substitute for action. we
no, not back to libya. >> rose: afghanistan. >> yeah, i would go back to afghanistan. i feel very comfortable in afghanistan. i've been working there many years. >> rose: and dow this because? >> because i think people need to see what what's happening. and i do think that it is a unique time in our history where the united states is fighting two wars at once. we are have troops on the ground. u.s. soldiers are getting maimed and killed. we need to see what is happening....
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afghanistan all girls are all essentially. entrance of into coordination pashtun most would find in a developer context are simply extraordinary difficult to accomplish. i mean, the panelists here represent organizations that routinely meet, totally share some of that. in some cases the u.n. believes that cause with the government is either too weak or nonexistent. and in some cases we have seen in other places you may share that information with a military force, such as a prt. often we would share that with the prts. frankly, there are so many actors of competing interests, and contractors are one of these actors that unless they complete that deliverable they will not be reimbursed. they don't care the end of the day if the farmer has been disincentivize to do something voluntarily because that's a data point they have to accomplish. so, the u.s. officer may not even be aware that mercy corps already has a pre-existing a.i.d. program to that initiative here so i would say there is a donor requirement that they collaborate a
afghanistan all girls are all essentially. entrance of into coordination pashtun most would find in a developer context are simply extraordinary difficult to accomplish. i mean, the panelists here represent organizations that routinely meet, totally share some of that. in some cases the u.n. believes that cause with the government is either too weak or nonexistent. and in some cases we have seen in other places you may share that information with a military force, such as a prt. often we would...
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will be in harm's way and i'm very much in favor of getting out of afghanistan i think a diplomatic approach is the only one we can take but getting out of iraq and afghanistan it will take years and so making the campaign promise that he would get out immediately was simply not something simply something he shouldn't promise to get mow the same thing right he promised that he would be closing guantanamo and then he encountered all of this political opposition even from his own party because they didn't want people they didn't want prisoners coming to the prisons in their backyard so numbers and kicked in right not in my backyard so i think president obama has had this steep learning curve where he promised a lot thought he could do a lot got into office and found out that he is only one deck hand on a very big boat and it's hard to turn that ship a lesson in managing expectations from dr caroline held and professor of politics at occidental college now it's not just american policies coming under fire international policies are as well as the international monetary fund needs and w
will be in harm's way and i'm very much in favor of getting out of afghanistan i think a diplomatic approach is the only one we can take but getting out of iraq and afghanistan it will take years and so making the campaign promise that he would get out immediately was simply not something simply something he shouldn't promise to get mow the same thing right he promised that he would be closing guantanamo and then he encountered all of this political opposition even from his own party because...
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you could have serious violence in places like pakistan or afghanistan. this could increase the recruitment of individuals who would be willing to blow themselves up in american cities or european cities. >> bobby, explain how these -- because -- explain how these extremists in afghanistan use it, how do they use it? obviously, preying on people who are just upset in general and how are they using it? cherry picking the events themselves, as well? >> absolutely. they're cherry picking it. keep in mind, other resentments bubbling up. >> right. >> afghans upset of a continued foreign presence, people upset about the economy. >> doesn't take much. >> doesn't take much. the tinder is dry and ready to be lit up but you have the groups that take -- exploit the situation. they're not telling the afghan people that one radical american preacher acting mostly on his own has done this. they're telling them the americans, the american government or the american people as a whole are behind the burni ining of the koran and the very poor and don't have access to the i
you could have serious violence in places like pakistan or afghanistan. this could increase the recruitment of individuals who would be willing to blow themselves up in american cities or european cities. >> bobby, explain how these -- because -- explain how these extremists in afghanistan use it, how do they use it? obviously, preying on people who are just upset in general and how are they using it? cherry picking the events themselves, as well? >> absolutely. they're cherry...
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they want foreign troops out of afghanistan. they had a series of technical demands that i would put in confidence-building measures. they want to my great, we want an end to roadside bombs. this is the islamic republic of afghanistan. the constitution spells out equal rights for men and women. my own view is that i do not believe -- i believe the aspiration is a very important one. i do not believe the aspiration is fulfilled across the country. equally, i do not believe it is going to be fulfilled at the barrel of a gun. the development of afghan society, as the russian towns, is not done by foreign occupation. there is compromise to be made there. one way out is to say that the has to beafghan wheomen heard. you are right. there is a tension between what the constitution sets out and what the reality -- and the reality that exists. >> you are going to have a htun , conservative pahtus population in afghanistan. >> i am from the atlantic council. i want to ask you about the current developments between hamas and fatwah. how wo
they want foreign troops out of afghanistan. they had a series of technical demands that i would put in confidence-building measures. they want to my great, we want an end to roadside bombs. this is the islamic republic of afghanistan. the constitution spells out equal rights for men and women. my own view is that i do not believe -- i believe the aspiration is a very important one. i do not believe the aspiration is fulfilled across the country. equally, i do not believe it is going to be...
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operations in afghanistan a four hundred million dollars cut in heating assistance for low income homeowners the cost of one and a half days of the war in afghanistan and a five hundred million dollar cut in nutritional assistance to women infants and children the cost of two days of that war a war with an increasingly devastating impact also on its troops the suicide rate is at a record level almost of course the divorce rate among the list a great speech more than eighty percent there a crow with rethink afghanistan says it's the result of deployment after deployments and of seeing horrible things year after year and if you're going to say you support the troops continuing to send them into this meat grinder in afghanistan and even iraq select troops there that's really a fallacious argument this kid lost his father. look at the pain of war we're going to us and think about his date in the coffin right behind him and the little american flag he's got folded just because the war we are now in the years has what has become the longest war in american history and some day after the war is ove
operations in afghanistan a four hundred million dollars cut in heating assistance for low income homeowners the cost of one and a half days of the war in afghanistan and a five hundred million dollar cut in nutritional assistance to women infants and children the cost of two days of that war a war with an increasingly devastating impact also on its troops the suicide rate is at a record level almost of course the divorce rate among the list a great speech more than eighty percent there a crow...
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and pakistan today first in afghanistan there is a. pilot who for twenty years has been a pilot who then ended up opening fire and killing eight u.s. troops killing a contractor and this is something that we've seen happen many times before either someone who has decided to turn against international coalition troops or someone who's been a taliban impersonator then the wall street journal is reporting that the pakistani foreign minister is now pressuring karzai to give up on the u.s. not really sure how he's going to do that and stick with pakistan and its ally the chinese so i do think the ryan crocker israel is going to be really important here what do you make of that report from the wall street journal here jack. well i think this is huge i mean the fact is that afghanistan is an unmitigated disaster and in some ways it's getting worse not because of what's necessarily happening just you know i can understand but what's what about it pakistan because every time we talk about this issue every time we talk about the region you can n
and pakistan today first in afghanistan there is a. pilot who for twenty years has been a pilot who then ended up opening fire and killing eight u.s. troops killing a contractor and this is something that we've seen happen many times before either someone who has decided to turn against international coalition troops or someone who's been a taliban impersonator then the wall street journal is reporting that the pakistani foreign minister is now pressuring karzai to give up on the u.s. not...
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afghanistan is no acception. children in afghanistan have one the worst chances of survival in the world. one out of every five dies before the age of five, mostly due to preventible causes. that's not to say that progress isn't being made. infant mortality, and many more children in school than ten years ago. there are still millions of school-aged kids not getting an education. afghanistan is a really tough place to be a child despite donor engagement, and despite the provision of significant humanitarian, and development assistance. adopting the smart development approach that we've outlined in our paper can change the circumstances. a brief word about save the children. we've worked with afghans for over 30 years, and through a staff that's about 98% afghan, we provide protection, health, and nutrition, and education programming directly through our own staff and another dozen or so through partners. that's an example of one stream, we work with families, communities, health care workers, in homes and health
afghanistan is no acception. children in afghanistan have one the worst chances of survival in the world. one out of every five dies before the age of five, mostly due to preventible causes. that's not to say that progress isn't being made. infant mortality, and many more children in school than ten years ago. there are still millions of school-aged kids not getting an education. afghanistan is a really tough place to be a child despite donor engagement, and despite the provision of significant...
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representative to afghanistan and pakistan, marc roseman. i want to thank he and his wife for greeg agreeing to serve our nation once more. so leon panetta of the defense department, david petraeus at the c.i.a., ambassador crocker and general john allen in afghanistan. these are the leaders that i've chosen to help guide us through the difficult days ahead. i will look to them and my entire national security team for their counsel, continuity, and unity of effort that this moment in history demands. and our people on the front lines, our brave troops, our outstanding intelligence personnel, our dedicated diplomats will look to them for the leadership that this effort requires. i urge our friends in the senate to confirm these individuals as swiftly as possible so they can assume their duties and help meet the urgent challenges we confront as a nation. we are a nation still at war and joined by leaders along side me today, i will continue to do everything in my power as commander-in-chief to keep our nation strong and the american people saf
representative to afghanistan and pakistan, marc roseman. i want to thank he and his wife for greeg agreeing to serve our nation once more. so leon panetta of the defense department, david petraeus at the c.i.a., ambassador crocker and general john allen in afghanistan. these are the leaders that i've chosen to help guide us through the difficult days ahead. i will look to them and my entire national security team for their counsel, continuity, and unity of effort that this moment in history...
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afghanistan and now. yes the u.s. involvement in libya let's get it done let's zero in these rebels let's give them a chance to fight a sentiment also supported by m.s.n. he sees most liberal talk show host rachel now and lawrence o'donnell it seems to me there's a practical war making tactical success that they believe they could have in this particular country exactly he kept describing himself as sort of acutely aware of the risks and the costs of america doing any sort of military intervention and so you're exactly right i think we have to do it it is a moral decision at this point so you might be thinking well that's just because the u.s. involvement in libya falls under a democratic president but as it turns out and s n b c has had a longstanding love affair with war remember actually banfield oh my god. she became a star reporter covering the world trade center attacks but in two thousand and three. kansas state university. just as the war in iraq was getting started she said about the coverage what didn't you
afghanistan and now. yes the u.s. involvement in libya let's get it done let's zero in these rebels let's give them a chance to fight a sentiment also supported by m.s.n. he sees most liberal talk show host rachel now and lawrence o'donnell it seems to me there's a practical war making tactical success that they believe they could have in this particular country exactly he kept describing himself as sort of acutely aware of the risks and the costs of america doing any sort of military...
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robert walker who served as a sniper in afghanistan and now blogs a powerful case that net on his site he references a quote that he appeared in my system self from douglas macarthur the soldier above all other people prays for peace for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war was to thank you for viruses and pleasure so. you served as a sniper for the navy seals in afghanistan tell us a little bit about your service and what lessons you gain from it i have to carry out that i did not actually serve as a sniper and wasn't required in the navy seals ok intel on primary reconnaissance got a special thank you lots of time in iraq and afghanistan but none sniping ok well we were we don't want to get into the mechanics of the sniping anyways but really what were the what are the lessons going because you served you served for twenty five years of years twenty years you've lived in thirty countries thirty four now i think and you must have learned some lessons specifically from your service that informs your views now on our foreign policy tell us about that well in the s
robert walker who served as a sniper in afghanistan and now blogs a powerful case that net on his site he references a quote that he appeared in my system self from douglas macarthur the soldier above all other people prays for peace for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war was to thank you for viruses and pleasure so. you served as a sniper for the navy seals in afghanistan tell us a little bit about your service and what lessons you gain from it i have to carry out that...
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no one can pick the end in afghanistan. i give it a 10% chance that something happens that none of us could think of today. he chipped. i mean, none of us anticipated egypt and libya. something wild have been simply say how did we all missed out? to give it a 10% chance that karzai is gone. i do how, but he's no longer part of the equation after a while. i give it a 40% chance that we'll muddle through the way we're talking to gradually pull forces out and it'll be okay. i give it a 40% chance the karzai and the people of kabul pulley henry kissinger. if you recall the nobel peace prize in 1972 in the war in vietnam and that there will be some sort of messy deal between the taliban, pakistanis and afghans that will cause all of us to scratch her head and say, why did we lose all those troops in that end result? >> i'd like to have you a question. in the book there is less than disaster they talk about the bombing of north vietnam and killed a result, it better. when i posted were interviews of the north vietnamese, they fee
no one can pick the end in afghanistan. i give it a 10% chance that something happens that none of us could think of today. he chipped. i mean, none of us anticipated egypt and libya. something wild have been simply say how did we all missed out? to give it a 10% chance that karzai is gone. i do how, but he's no longer part of the equation after a while. i give it a 40% chance that we'll muddle through the way we're talking to gradually pull forces out and it'll be okay. i give it a 40% chance...
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as the commander in afghanistan i want to talk about afghanistan right now certainly some big news out there some tragic news eight u.s. troops killed a u.s. contractor killed this by a. told apparently afghan military pilots what does this replacement what do those taking over in afghanistan in leadership roles what do they face in the months and years ahead well retired general eikenberry or investor there of course has had a cool relationship with the white house putting crocker in there isn't bassett or really he's he was portrayed as his partner in iraq as u.s. ambassador and is this an indication that betray us at the cia crocker in kabul will be sort of a repeat of that old alliance that they had friendship in and that certainly has not turned out to be anything great and as we know afghanistan is a quagmire it's the graveyard of empires all right r.c. contributor and investigative journalist i mean that's and as always interesting perspective there so if you're here is now a from what's going on with a shake up to the economy and it has been known as the temple of secrets palac
as the commander in afghanistan i want to talk about afghanistan right now certainly some big news out there some tragic news eight u.s. troops killed a u.s. contractor killed this by a. told apparently afghan military pilots what does this replacement what do those taking over in afghanistan in leadership roles what do they face in the months and years ahead well retired general eikenberry or investor there of course has had a cool relationship with the white house putting crocker in there...
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. >> it's a story about afghanistan but it's about one woman and one family in afghanistan so it really personalizes some of the challenges of that country. it's called the dressmakers of speed and tells the story of >> guest: it tells the story of a young woman who is supposed to be a teacher and ended up becoming an entrepreneur because there were so tough on so many people and she was left as the head of a family with five brothers and sisters counting on her and she became an entrepreneur and a dressmakers because there was nothing else women were to able to do. >> host: the interesting thing is she had never sewn before and became a successful dressmaker. >> guest: in the course of spending years going back and forth in afghanistan writing the book which i really think celebrates the unsung heroines whose stories are never told during the war. what i learned is that she realized pretty quickly on that she was actually sort of lousy seamstress but she was a really good businesswoman, and the seamstresses kept coming to her house, the young and girls who knew the families were counti
. >> it's a story about afghanistan but it's about one woman and one family in afghanistan so it really personalizes some of the challenges of that country. it's called the dressmakers of speed and tells the story of >> guest: it tells the story of a young woman who is supposed to be a teacher and ended up becoming an entrepreneur because there were so tough on so many people and she was left as the head of a family with five brothers and sisters counting on her and she became an...
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afghanistan we just saw you know eight u.s. troops one u.s. contractor killed by you know this disgruntled pilot at the kabul airport these wars the war in afghanistan particularly there is a lot that still needs to be done what do you think all of these. and will face in the coming months and years on this incident with apologies not a single incident this is happened over the past two years i talk to one of the private sector sergeants who was actually almost killed by a taliban infiltrator before too but that said i think we have some some major flaws in our current strategy today it was revealed that the pakistanis are calling for cars i should have been his relationship with us and over and i say they're saying stick with us now right so be it so i say it's time to go and the thing is we need to deal more risk realistically with pakistan because the ultimate issue there is not afghanistan it's the indian pakistan cold war that's what we should be focusing on and the pakistanis want to deal with the afghans and so be it all
afghanistan we just saw you know eight u.s. troops one u.s. contractor killed by you know this disgruntled pilot at the kabul airport these wars the war in afghanistan particularly there is a lot that still needs to be done what do you think all of these. and will face in the coming months and years on this incident with apologies not a single incident this is happened over the past two years i talk to one of the private sector sergeants who was actually almost killed by a taliban infiltrator...