killed 16 civilians in their beds, including nine children and then burned some of the corpses. the unidentified staff sergeant is now in u.s. custody. the president called and issued this statement. this incident is tragic and shocking and does not respect the character of our military and the respect the united states has for the people of afghanistan. for his part, president karzai said this intentional action is a murder and a terrorist action and will never be forgiven. many americans are still waiting for karzai to apologize for all the afghan riots after what american officials call the accidental burning of a koran last month. it appears karzai does not trust us, so people are asking today, why should we continue to invest blood and treasure after ten years in afghanistan? we start today with two men who have served in afghanistan, anthony schaffer and now senior fellow at the center for

advanced defense studies, shawn parnell author of "outla platoon." captain, let's start with you. based on your time there and what you know from studying the psychology in this field, what can we make of what happened in this terrible tragedy? >> well, details are still sketchy. we're just not sure. i think that the details will unfold throughout the investigation process. but what i can tell you is the american military is strapped. we have been dealing with year on year off deployments for the better part of ten years now. and that puts a huge strain on military families. that means divorce rates go up. there's no question the military is under duress right now. >> you're seeing the personal

level and also this individual -- i was on bbc and predicted this last night. i said this guy has been on three or four tours and is at the end of his wit. we have had high suicides. we have had post-traumatic stress. but these kids are out there trying to do the best they can in a very bad situation. even if you buy into the counterinsurgency strategy, you have the afghan people not liking you. you get the worry about if the people you're training are on your side because of the taliban infiltrators killing the trainers. and ultimately, the mission will fail. i hate to say that, but it will. we need to get on the antiterrorism which actually worked and get focused on what's necessary to win the terrorism issue. not to make the afghan people a democracy. >> and we have seen you in the poll that talks about 60% of americans saying this is not a

war worth fighting. that's a big change, of course, from where people started in 2001 when the goal was to take out osama bin laden. is it your view that we have had all these events and there's a feeling we don't have a mission over there anymore? or is it something else? >> yes. we achieved all our military objectives in 2003. we eliminated the safe havens, which ryan crocker said because we haven't eliminated the safe havens, our strategy was going to fail. so we have known this for eight years. my book outlines the tipping point where we switched strategies. frankly, we have won. when we got bin laden, we should have said it's time to leave. time to leave the afghan people to figure out what they want to do for themselves. >> captain? >> yeah. let me put you back on what he's

saying. the basic premise of the strategy is to build up and strengthen the host nation, which is afghanistan, so it can better govern and protect itself people. here's the deal though. calling afghanistan a nation is a far stretch of the imagination. most people in afghanistan don't even know how old they are. so how can we expect military members to accomplish a mission when the basic premise of the strategy that's implemented is flawed? >> and captain, with your work on the psychological piece of this, do you feel at this point in time we have the right detection systems in place within the command structure to spot these kinds of individuals? i don't have to tell you that what one individual has done now has had an impact on the president's ability to conduct this war on the frayed relationship with karzai where there's a separate set of issues from beforehand. do we have the right systems in place or not?

>> well, i think that what we need -- this is a leader issue. it blows my mind how a soldier walks off by himself. we use the battle buddy system in combat to ensure things like this don't happen. but what we need to start asking now is what is this fitness that the army is implementing? what it is is it puts a positive spin on combat for soldiers. it's something that's not optional. so it's resiliency training. it's putting a positive spin on combat. >> what are people to take out of all of this today? >> well, first off, our kids need to be given the chance to win. the current strategy, especially with the way it's been politicized by the white house, they are not given that chance. these kids are doing the best they can. we're talking about boy scouts against tony soprano here.

you have the warrior ethic that says if you show weakness, you're not strong. that plays against this. we have to fix our army and get it focused back on things that we can achieve victory on. settling the afghan people to push towards a government is not in our best interest to do. >> and captain, the other point here is should we be hitting a limit on the number of times that people are sent back into the conflict zones? is that part of the problem here as well? >> it's definitely part of the problem. but i think that the army is doing the best they can with a force that's totally strapped. and in many cases, the tempo forces soldiers to go back year on and year off. >> anything else on that? >> the bottom line is any time you have the kids deploying over and over again, you don't have a family life. you have huge stress, especially

in a circumstance where you don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. they talk about it in the big building behind me, but it doesn't happen. our army never does well in defense. the best defense is a good offense. we need to get back on the antiterrorism strategy. not make us the issue. right now, we're stuck between the taliban and karzai government. we need to get out of the middle and get back on the path to victory. >> i want to thank you both for spending time with us today and helping us understand what's going on over there in obviously a tough time. thank you for your time. coming up, which candidate will be feeling the southern hospitality tomorrow? president obama is feeling some heat. plus no birth control pills for women, maybe no viagra for men. and finally, what you're doing on facebook this election year could be costing you friends. all that and a little march madness action. stay with us. [ male announcer ] we asked real people if they'd help us with an experiment

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politics 2012 or as we call it, auction 2012. the republicans are headed south to mississippi and alabama. polls show a tight race for tomorrow's votes. interestingly there's a new poll that shows high gas prices are indeed hurting the president. it's a reversal of the same addiction from january's poll and romney has a slight lead. that's not all. rick santorum is neck and neck within the margin of error with president obama. so to sort that out, it's mega panel time with imogen lloyd

webber, tim carney, and sam seder. tim carney, what is rick santorum doing tied with president obama? >> president obama has done things to make himself unpopular. also things he hasn't done, like gas prices. i don't blame him, but voters do. and here's an in. being socially conservative does not make you a popular. there's a portion that think we shouldn't be forcing people to buy contraception. >> it's extraordinarily to see you, but we have a saying in britain. a week is a long time in politics. we have a long way to go to the general election. as far as rick santorum goes, how long is mr. frieze going to remain in? the question is not are they

going to drop out of the race, but when are their super pacs going to drop out of the race? >> there's probably no other entity in the country more than the obama administration or campaign that would love to test that theory out with rick santorum in a general election. i don't think it's going to happen, but i think we're months out from the election. i think the polls -- we can't start to tune into them too much until there's two people in the race. and right now -- >> let me pick up on that. one way to read it is you can be pretty wild in some of the things you say and be resilient in national polls. or we can say maybe these polls don't mean anything at this point. >> of course, they don't. they are all hypothetical. we don't know who the republican candidate is going to be yet. so they are interesting in terms of what kind of baring they have on the republican race. mitt romney has been selling himself as the only guy who can

beat obama. maybe rick santorum has the chance to make that same argument. >> will you endorse that, tim? >> i agree you don't want to listen to the polls that far out, but i want to run the clips of msnbc hosts saying that when obama was 12 points up a week ago. a month ago. >> obama's campaign today is going to a million women in the battleground states. >> i'm glad you said women. >> you heard one of these things that dylan ratigan talks about is the premise there should be one set of rules for everyone. a senator is trying to level the playing field when it comes to reproductive health. there's a great bill that requires any man seeking pviagr to see a therapist, receive a cardiac stress test, and confirming impotency. are you prepared to do that to get viagra should you need it?

>> some of those requirements are -- it's a big mountain to climb. let's put it that way. it's a funny bill. it does sort of uncover some of the -- what's involved with the contraception mandate for women. and them having the ability to control their own reproductive system. but at the end of the day, we're talking about the empowerment of women. to decide to reproduce is their decision. >> would you say this somewhat comedic attempt saying you need a sex affidavit to get prescription medication? >> it's just there to highlight how ridiculous this contraception argument is.

what is it 61% of americans believe women should have access to contraception through the health insurance. it's crazy. republicans, get out of the bedroom and get back to the issues with the economy. >> it's an utterly absurd premise to relate these two things because nobody is trying to limit the ability of women to buy contraception. the debate is over whether or not employers should be forced to play for employee's contraception. if you want to say employers shouldn't be forced to buy viagra, i'm all for it. it's more freedom. the ohio bill is in response to an abortion bill. even if you think that it's sometimes the right decision to have an abortion, you shouldn't think it's something flip et. it isn't insignificant as viagra. the abortion bill in ohio is about whether or not you can abort the baby that has a beating heartbeat. >> but in pennsylvania and other

states, we have seen bills about controlling the right to make that choice and having to clear it with other people. so this isn't coming out of nowhere. >> it's a notion that women don't have the ability to make this decision. it's a constitutional right. they have the ability. of course, it is. it's determined by the supreme court. i don't have to pretend. i can look up and see what case law is in the way they have divided the constitution. it's allowing women to have the right over their own reproductive choices without having a mandate as to what hurdles they should jump over based upon what the ohio legislature has deemed they want. >> a reply from tim, and then we're going to talk about a facebook thing. >> there's lots of different laws in question here. the illinois law, which got another one of these responses to it, that didn't require an ultrasound or anything like that. it said a doctor must offer an

ultrasound to a woman. the virginia bill that ended up passing, that's a huge part of all of our medical practice that you don't let a woman having an abortion without her knowing what it is. >> you don't let a woman have an abortion. it's her right. >> but without knowing what it is. >> the idea that women don't know what they are doing is is one i think that's really the problem here. and that's what this whole viagra thing is meant to bring out. this notion that somehow that men would have the same restriction on their freedom that women would. that's the whole point of this bill. that's how ridiculous it is. >> i think that's a good point. it's whether you define the precedent and the rules by what the supreme court has said in 1965. you have a right to contraception. in 1973 you have a right to make the choice to terminate a fetus. people may disagree with those,

but we have a rule of law. it concerns people. we're going to move something a little more fun. a new poll shows your political preferences could actually cost you some prends on facebook. a lot of people feel they have too many friends on facebook. but basically, about 18% of social media users say they have blogged or unfriended someone for their political coasts and a third have cut family members out. have you ever unfriended someone over politics? >> no, but i thought about it. it's to the man to my left here. he's just so angry in the way he twee tweets. it's crashing up our my twitter feed. >> i took a poll just before we came on here. she called me the most angry twitterer in her feed. almost all the responses have said i guess she doesn't follow enough liberals then if she said that. >> sam, have you ever done it? >> blocked anybody because of political reasons?

no. that's why i use those things. in fact, i think people would probably block me if i wasn't angry and talking about politics on my twitter feed. when i talk about anything else, people get agitated. >> i have to resist tweeting about football on twitter. but on football today, i wanted to tweet about the jets, and i thought no. people are signing up for something. according to her, that's right wing anger. >> that's all i'm saying. >> it's a political tweet, but also we have to think about what do we mean by advocacy. the kony video got millions of views. is that political or just about something that you love that you want to share? >> i don't know if somebody would block someone for that. i'm surprised it's only 18%. that's what shocked me.

for people who don't use these sort of explicitly to carry a message, i'm surprised more people don't drop it. because there's a tendency of getting upset when you see things you don't want to see. >> i think 66% of people ignore political tweets. that's why more people don't unfollow you. they ignore it. >> the other part is at least on facebook, twitter you can follow whoever you are interested in. facebook there's this pressure because someone from high school says what's up? and then they are coming back with some aggressive political stuff and you're like we're barely friends. i'll listen to my friends rapts, but if it's someone more distant, i'll see i don't need that. >> we need the unsubscribe

button. >> and for a fact that i have lots of high school friends. some are pleasantly surprised. they had no idea i was a crazy libertarian pro-life angry catholic and they are happy. and lots who frankly shocked by it and will never speak to me again. it's good that facebook allowed them to find out about my dark side. >> tim carney described himself as angry, crazy and right wing today. you're in a humble self-assessment. you can follow all on twitter. our panel will stay. next we have talked a little bit about the slipping poll numbers, but who is to blame for the high gas prices? a specialist will join the table. [ male announcer ] what if you had thermal night-vision goggles,

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prices. >> our pain at the pump may result in pain at the polls for the president. two-thirds of americans disapprove of how the president is handling gas prices. dennis kelliher is the president of better markets. what has changed in the commodities markets from say ten years ago? >> speculators in the market have overtaken the commodity markets. it's important to remember that commodity markets aren't like equity markets. they are designed for commercial producers to hedge their products. unlike the equity markets, everybody speculates as much as they want. what you are supposed to do is be able to hedge your future sale or purchase. ten years ago, somewhere between 70 and 80% of these markets were controlled by commercial

purchases and producers. and 20 to 30% at the most were speculators. now it's flipped. over 70% are ranked speculators. >> but how do you draw that line? some people will say, look, efficient markets. you need some speculation to change the prices and get this going. how are you defining it in the policies you're advocating? how do you draw the line in bad versus good speculation. >> it isn't defined by us. if you're not, you're a speculator. you're right about whether or not it's good or bad. but it relates to the quantity of speculation. so ten years ago when we had 30% speculators, things worked pretty well. the interesting thing that people don't focus on is six years ago x there was an invention called the commodity

index fund. but somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 to $400 billion has sloshed into the commodity markets in the last several years. you can see up goes prices. it creates a boom/bust cycle. but a lot of the problems we're seeing at the pump is due to speculation. >> i don't exactly understand how they go ahead and drive up the price of this commodity and get rich off of it and why everybody is not doing that in every other market. in other words, speculation would be investing on the expectation that something is going to go up or down. and it should be providing more smoothness. so if speculators are able to drive up the price of oil, why only $106 a barrel? why not everything else? >> that's a good point. it's happening in a lot of other

commodities as well. many markets are going up like that. i'm not saying only speculation is driving prices. there's all this other stuff. but a big part of it is money coming into the markets in vast amounts. everybody would agree that typically if you see a market that has participation in it that goes up $400 billion, that almost always affects the market no matter what it is. >> it's not that the real way money is coming in is more people are buying oil. china and india are buying it. not people trying to buy futures in it. >> that's a good point. that's what many people think. but oil has gone up 40% in the last several months. we didn't just discover china or growth. something else besides supply and demand is affecting the price of oil. that has to do with speculation. you have too many dollars chasing too few products.

>> i want to bring in imogen lloyd webber. if you ask dennis a question and he has a rebuttal, he'll say it's a good point and completely demolish your premise. >> is there anything the administration can do to counteract the speculators? like releasing more oil? it sounds crazy they are allowed to get away with this. >> there's plenty they can do and should do. the first thing they should do is start an investigation of the commodity hedge funds and the money flowing in from wall street into the markets. you don't have to have enforcement, but it's not manipulation. the real problem is access speculation. not all speculation. it was around 30%. we'd see the markets functioning more stable with less volatility. the administration ought to get the department of justice and ftc to get the documents. let's look at what wall street's

activities are are. i'm confident what you'll see is excess speculation that's driving up the price. it will answer tim's question. that's what a lot of people say, but we don't have the information. one of the problems with these marketings and why financial reform is important is there's no transparency. you can't find that information. so when there's no transparency and no regulation, what you almost always get is predatory behavior. >> aren't we also seeing -- just stepping back a bit further. maybe there's a place for government intervention. but aren't we seeing the problem with capacity? you have that much money floating around looking for something to invest in. it starts to inflate food. it starts to inflate other commodities because there's so much money to place the side be

bets. i wouldn't even call them informsments. they are side bets that drive the price of the commodities. isn't that also a big part of the problem? >> i'm going to say yes, and i agree with you. but it's not true. you're right. they are not investments. it's just like rank gambling. that's what happens on wall street. it's interesting. we used to call it banking. now we call it finance. but what they are financing is their gambling activities. they it don't move into any crevice they can. it means going further out on the risk curve. we found out where that e gets us. so we need the administration to take a good look at this just like they need to look at the other areas. it's addressing both the speculation and the commodity markets, but also the too big to fail issue. there's a funny coincidence. the too big to fail banks happen to be the biggest participants

in the commodity markets too. >> you talk about transparency earlier. that's a big theme for dylan. president obama ran on transparency. on your issues that you defined, what grade would you give the administration on getting accurate information to the public in a transparent way? >> that's a pretty broad question that can only get most people in a lot of trouble. so the way i'm going to approach is it is to say, an area of reform we attempt to bring transparency to the financial arena and finance generally. they have done an outstanding job in large measure. there's a long way to go. >> what's the grade? >> i would say the grade so far is a high b. but they have to get in there and keep fighting. the truth is that the finance industry is now spending somewhere in the neighborhood of millions or tens of millions of dollars trying to defeat financial reform. we don't know because today we

have no transparency in the over the counter market. $700 trillion. that's going to change over time with the dodd-frank and other financial reform being put in place. we're going to get to a point where we have accountability and oversight. but what has to happen is the administration is push on financial reform and the rule-making process. then they will get to an a. >> you gave them a road map and a grade. thank you, dennis. straight ahead, we're going to take time out for march madness. you'll want to hear the numbers. my mother froze everything.

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chari charity. the film maker joins us. what are you trying to achieve? >> it's about a message. a lot of people who think about the japan think about the radiation from the nuclear reactor. but there's a really important story that people miss. that's basically a story of heroes. of people who have lost everything in their lives, but that didn't let them give up. they decided to turn it around and decided to help out their community and put themselves basically last and fight for the people around them. >> how did you find them when you were on the ground there in japan? >> i went there in the beginning. i didn't think about making a film, but i was just pitching in. we were doing soup kitchens and that kind of thing. the people around me just impressed me and inspired me because there was an old man. instead of sitting and waiting for food, he ran up and grabbed this bag of rice and brought it over to where all the provisions

are. people just really went out of their way to be a part of it and to help. when i saw that, i realized this is not just a normal situation. this is really the essence of japanese psyche comes out. >> we're going to look at a brief clip that just looks at some of the relief workers. let's look at that. >> sure. >> by us being here, it's also giving people hope that they are not forgotten. >> this is not just something in the first month. it's continuous. >> tell us about what we were looking at there. >> so when this happened, people aum over the world came together. if you were on twitter or facebook or any of the other social media sites, people said pray for japan. it became a phrase that was a slogan. this inspired people from not only around japan but around the world to come and volunteer and help out.

the same thing that inspired me in seeing these people and how they were reacting, but also inspired other people who came to volunteer. it was like everyone pitching in. just thousands of people to try to turn this town around. >> this was four times what we saw in katrina and by many other measures, much larger and damaging. many americans remember that crisis and criticisms around the reaction to it. what do you think e we learned in a year later? and what are the metrics we're see seeing? what about the people on the ground? >> part of the problem in any type of disaster is so many things happen in the world nowadays, it's in the media and covered and then disappears. people forget. but it's a long-term process. recovering from this kind of natural disaster doesn't happen in one year.

so the debris, which was incredible. the mud, the people don't have jobs. the fishing industry and farming industry, these industries were basically gutted and have to be built from the beginning. and then you have the people who have lost all their families and loved ones. they are start ing ing to realle issues that they need care. they need therapy and psychological help. this these types of symptoms occur in any type of disaster. if we forget and there aren't people on the ground to help, they will be spending the rest of their lives trying to live it. >> the outpouring you're talking about, we saw this amazing outpouring. yet we're a nation more so that has very high antipathy towards foreign aid. we think of that as wasted money. yet so many of us give our own

foreign aid, although it's not channelled through the government. what do you make of that? >> i think it's important to get it on the ground. most of us, myself included, were paranoid if we give something, where is it going to go? so i think people need to be careful. what is the organization they are giving to? what's the type of infrastructure? what percentage is going to make it? it's hard to know. that's a challenge. >> you said this is going in 16 theaters wednesday. why should people see it? >> it's the entire film for charity. everybody who made the film, we have all volunteered. so this film, the ticket you buy, it goes on the ground. i know what these organizations are doing and i know the money is going to go there. so people don't know me, so there's always a question of where it's going to go, but ultimately in this case, i'm confident the money will be used wisely. the other thing when you watch

this film, what happens is it gives you just a little bit of extra perspective on your own life. so if you're stressed out, and i found this myself, we have challenges in our own day-to-day. >> how so? >> basically, you watch these people and watch what they have gone through and how tragic it was and how they dealt with their own problems. we have problems, but these people have lost so much. when you watch that, you think maybe i can kind of get through today. >> everyone was talking last week about the kony video what has hit 90 million views. what do you as a film maker think when you see something like that? you have a distribution model working on a charity program to help sell tickets for japan. that's a different model. are we seeing an ability more so than previously to take the humanitarian issues, which are not thought of as big audience

drawers, and route around the traditional media? >> i think our society, we're exposed to so much information that we pick and choose what we're interested in. so there's things we care about and want to go out and support the things we care about. >> is it what we're interested in or emotion? the kony video, it hits you with the way people presented it as an emotional question. is that really a choice though or just a stimulus response? >> certainly, we're humans. at the end of the day, we have stimuli we respond to. but we have the ability to think through things and determine what we care about and don't. if we're required to go do something, take out wallets and give money, or walk to the theater, that's a decision we have to make. but as a film maker, it's our

responsibility not just to make our movie and tell our story, but to get it in front of people and let people know the story is there. no one is going to do it for you. >> you don't feel there's any other distribution channel? the content is the distribution channel. >> in my case, i was very lucky. amc, which is a major theater chain, they supported this film. they have been amazing. and you don't typically think a large company is going to necessarily support such a small effort, but they did. and so i do think there is a recognition of alternative content. the content doesn't have to be mainstream. >> thank you for sharing with us. the movie "pray for japan." it's in theaters on wednesday. coming up on "hardball," the big stakes on tuesday as

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it's monday which means it's time for keli goff's rant. >> speaking at this year's news week women in the world summit, madelyn albright said there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. it looks like it will be crowded. on march 8th, business environment released a new study that found 72% of female managers admitted to judging

female coworkers for the way they dressed compared to 60% of male managers and 25% of managers admitted to being reluctant to hire a woman who has children or is of child baring age. these findings seem to confirm earlier data that found that women are accused of workplace bullying, the targets are almost always other women in numbers higher than men accused of bullying men. the bullying directed by some women appears to rear its ugly head in the voting booth. the women have comprised the majority of the population for years when female candidates are underrepresented in government. 17% of members of congress are women. according to the 2012 center for american women in politics, the u.s. ranks 71st in terms of female elected officials worldwide. just behind some place called

turkminstand. that begs the question. are women to blame for the fact we haven't managed to elect a female president, vice president, and that the number of women in congress is at a 30-year low? in an interview with jackie spear, she said there's a kpeation that women see when other women see. women see a threat that somehow if one succeeds, another must fall. a writer for "the washington post" who covered the 2008 election added "women look at women running for office and say i couldn't do that. i'm a mom and couldn't run for governor or why is she so ambitious"? the california attorney general said women stepping up to mentor other women is crucial to increasing the number of female elected officials while spears said the key may be getting more to participate in team sports so

they learn the value of working together at an early age. maybe the earliest way to explain to those who don't get it is through pie. gail king said it sattens me when women think there's not enough to go around. it's a big pie out there. i believe that when you're good at what you do, it only makes me better. if only more women agreed at least hell would end up a lot less crowded. >> thank you. on the policy side, there's affirmative action, which the supreme court has scaled back and looking at again this term. what do you think are the solutions to the problem you're identifying? >> it's so funny you brought that up. other countries are looking at going to the dirty word, quotas. the country one country is exploring quotas for female elected officials. so it's interesting that

countries we consider not as elevated as we are are looking at approaches to riveting this issue. we still have numbers lower. >> and other numbers you had had in the workplace, there's this idea that at times there's a gender-related stigma and ambition is interpreted differently. there's nothing government can do. >> this is controversial. i have gotten in trouble for saying this before. it's illegal to ask someone if you plan on having children. i'm of chald child-baring age, but i wouldn't want a child in the next year. so instead you have managers who say, she's at that age. i'm not going to hire any woman at that age. that does women a disservice. >> you're saying a hard line creates an uncertainty and can enlarge the room for error. thank you for sharing. that does it for us. i'm ari melber in for dylan ratigan today. "hardball" starts right now.