it's. well can they learn to show up at the real headlines with none of the mercy me live out of washington d.c. . take the stand i'll have details on the general senate hearing what he calls the fragile and reversible progress in our longest war so why are we still there then we'll focus on the disaster in japan and how lobbyists for every energy industry out there never miss an opportunity to capitalize on these catastrophes and let's evaluate the justice system of the u.s. on international day against police brutality how police across the country improve

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report in general david petraeus himself ok. important but hard fought progress in afghanistan i'll report card of sorts for those serving on the senate armed services committee like senator joseph lieberman of connecticut nobody's under any illusion that this is truly the question that seems to have many answers is in which direction it's turning here's one side we're here for a reason we're me. king for us we have made a great deal of progress in afghanistan since the last hearing of this committee on the subject just over a half a year ago while the security progress achieved over the past year is significant it is also fragile and reversible this line fragile and reversible uttered so many times in the last few days it may almost be worthy of a drinking game this progress remains fragile and reversible but in the same hearing room just last week a bit of

a different tune was sung we have enjoyed. the defeats in operational successes against the taliban however the taliban does remain resilient and will be able to threaten u.s. and international goals in afghanistan through twenty eleven also at the hearing and intelligence assessment about the future from national intelligence director james clapper i think the issue the concern. has is. after that and the ability of were afghan government to. pick up their responsibility for government over the last few weeks there has been additional hardship in the mission and an increase in anger after nine afghan children were killed in a nato led attack here's secretary gates last week like to begin by joining general petraeus and offering my personal apology. for the accidental killing of that

nine afghan boys by coalition forces and here's president karzai talking about incidents like this and civilian casualties as a whole they want it stopped. they want it both reduced they want to stop president karzai said he actually wanted foreign troops out of afghanistan so not only are they losing the u.s. supported president of afghanistan now new evidence that the war is losing support from the general public as well this washington post a.b.c. news poll just out shows sixty four percent of americans do not think the war has been worth fighting and a much larger number seventy three percent thinks the u.s. government should withdraw troops this summer as a originally planned michael prysner veteran and member of the antiwar answer coalition agrees resistance in afghanistan is a popular uprising of afghans from all walks of life from all backgrounds in every corner of afghanistan who rightfully see the occupation of their country as an

empire trying to gain a foothold in a region that's of strategic importance for resources and for dominating the region that in the hearing some signs that transition in kabul could be in the works it is afghan police who are the face of security on the streets is the afghan army a bit further out that has security responsibilities in every given. city so what's the purpose of these hearings what's said inside these walls is meant to give lawmakers inside a progress report so they know how to best vote for the future of what happens in afghanistan but what could become increasingly difficult for them the next messages on what they're hearing from general petraeus continues to differ immensely from what they hear from reports inside and outside of afghanistan in washington i'm christine present on r.t. . general david petraeus urges the end. merican people today to remember the reason why we're in afghanistan and all they gave was one single date nine eleven both

a record number of americans now saying that this war has not been worth fighting with a progress report ten years in that says nothing more than a fragile and reversible perhaps we have to wonder why general petraeus why congress why president obama won't just come out and say it straight that we can't win it that we can't change afghanistan that basically well we might be screwed earlier i could appreciate the libretto co-founder of veterans for rethinking afghanistan and dr james carafano senior defense analyst for the heritage foundation and i asked them just that. well i think because i would agree with it i mean first of all why you there we would argue there because the u.s. has a legitimate interest in being there but having afghanistan being a haven for the taliban and al qaeda doesn't work very well didn't work well before nine eleven and so when you're an interest you stick you get it right. and i think that there has been a change. and so that shows that you can do things or i change the way what kind of

changes that are there have not james there hasn't been change i mean the last year was the worst year in terms of afghan deaths in terms of afghanistan last year was the worst was the years we're here to since we were u.s. casualties and oh by the way the biggest nightmare of all probably the worst case scenario every year we've been in afghanistan a proven public approval rating inside of pakistan has decreased and a poll came out two weeks ago pakistani approval rating job by the general public was eighty percent disapproval rate policy in afghanistan doesn't make sense anymore for our interests or for a national security purpose whatsoever at this point and you when you're both conservatives you me both not president obama our office next year how is it that we make sense for us to be arguing for policy for him he wasn't well first of all i don't care who the president is the president the constitution is a job to provide for the common defense so i don't think it's not about who's in office not going to do more than it's all of those who disagree i mean those that we have i don't think it's in the u.s.

interest to have taliban roll back into afghanistan how about this over the last or the last year there was seven attempts minimal seven times we know by on classified documents wiki leaks and others there's little seven attempts to get their hands of nuclear weapons inside of pakistan united states did nothing to prevent it because we're bogged down in afghanistan our priorities are wrong our priorities has been sort of afghanistan trying to nation build not an actual counterterrorist activity the only way to get out of afghanistan right now and the only way that we're going to find any sort of fixing the solution is to your troops are their number one reason why is because in order to get this. fragile situation in pakistan dealt with by bringing peace. between kashmir india and pakistan and the only way to do that is if your troops out of afghanistan. very quickly interrupt you i want to ask you something about what sites be on the ground in afghanistan right and so much of our strategy supposed to be that winning hearts and minds but i want to know do you think that these are hearts and minds that catch really be won or are these only people whose hearts and minds minds you can rent for

a short time you can pay em off for a couple weeks or a couple months until they then again turn against you you know this is this is an incredible we're renting what you're doing by our presence here we are renting their public approval granted our soldiers are doing a credible job of trying to protect the population and train the afghan forces they're not the ones to blame but the bottom line is with this friends of afghans they have a one hundred year old mentality that's based one hundred years behind us and that's not going to change unless you stay there for another hundred years so how long are we supposed to stay there was a there for hundreds of years will they catch many billions of dollars ready for your interest which is to build up the capacity afghans to defend govern themselves i haven't heard a strategy from you which is basically walk away and oh yeah the kashmiri cry so it's really simple right here the afghan study group this is how we get out afghanistan james this isn't the way they get over the record it's a condition give it too long because we're going to get out of it what you know is that you know what that would be talking about anyway what you're saying it is like after pearl harbor if we just walked away and let the japanese have the pacific you

know i mean the policy no what you want for training through no we're talking about training an afghan national army by leaving about twenty five to thirty five thousand troops there would you could you counter terrorist activities by attacking al qaeda with that you simply get out of the east into the south were the taliban threat the taliban is a thirty thousand person they try to you're just missing one step which and i agree with you this is an afghan solution is turn this over the afghans train them to do the job but until you can stabilize the situation you've created a territory for the operator and that's not threatened by ok he had to. now kind of i do not see anything you said james that we should walk away right at this moment right there is of course talk that we have to begin a troop withdrawal starting this july there was talk of this twenty fourteen deadline date nobody seems to want to commit to the daycare soon telegram did introduce legislation saying let's have a completion date let's actually have some numbers a type of timetable that's been drawn out why can't we just commit to something

like that because asylum for a worse no repeat after pearl harbor people say president roosevelt tell us what they will work who's going to be over in the war's over when the war started yes but who decides when the war is done even if it were only ten percent of the american people say that this war isn't worth fighting the war that the american people are losing their lives for that i guess you could say technically the chinese are finding the right of center here heart attacks there are these are in disarray for the thought that the civil war wasn't worth winning either so what you are this is not i mean you do hear something of the american people don't want to live in a democracy not a place where of of the generals and say there's no telling how long he left the constitution over the constitution to say we vote every day on whether we should be of no socially congress is clearly not a yes or clear war now on which this and we'll tell you what just like jefferson with the barbary pirates is what the congress needs to do today with terms of terrorism here or terrorists and they do pose a threat those terrorist who pose a threat to build bigger safe haven in yemen and somalia than actually do in afghanistan it's not because they're there it's because al qaeda if you look at

what the theology if you look at the time you make. others they have more familiar with their he now here in yemen and somalia and other places and if you were shortly doing a counterterrorist effort we would go to yemen and we would show so that they can take take it home just want to be sure about this because we're in here does it talk about invading somalia yemen i'm not talking about invading i'm talking longer talking about. general petraeus said himself that there are only about one hundred members of al qaeda even left in afghanistan so if afghanistan isn't where they are if the mountains of pakistan if there was here a stand is the safe haven then what do we do about that right. we keep fighting a war that we do spend hundreds of billions of dollars on if the safe haven isn't even where we are because i think the. you know look that's very rude to to to do that right but i think they agree that part of the solution of dealing with pakistan is dealing with afghanistan and that's the reason why they call it because they go together i mean if you if you run away afghanistan they just walk back in

from pakistan just like when we pushed them out of afghanistan they went into pakistan you have to deal with both sides of the problem the pakistani side the problem is hard but the pakistani problem so the problem gets a lot harder if you walk away from afghanistan and you let the taliban walk him that doesn't explain how you deal with no it doesn't go. you have to look out with the taliban is the taliban are pashtuns who are pashtuns in pakistan and the pashtuns in afghanistan what you have to do is allow the have the pakistani government to shield protect himself from say any sort of insurgency and you have to allow the afghans to shield their it's themselves from an insurgency it doesn't mean continue to make pakistanis afghans and afghans matter pakistanis you won't worry and we're starting a civil war so you know during the civil war there were americans in the south and the americans in the north in the solution was to get a political solution to live together but until you created a military situation that could happen it could happen the same things through here you can't just say well we need

a political solution you have to have the security situation that allows a political exercise i mean you are you are a colonel solution definitely isn't doesn't seem to be showing itself but that's why i feel like at least somebody talk about that talk about the fact that this isn't working because fragile reversible yes that's obvious in ten years and fragile and reversible aren't what the american people want to hear and i thank you both very much for joining us and this is her traces first hearing on capitol hill since taking over and who knows he might not be heading this way for too much longer if there is to speak thanks. still to come tonight a dire situation in japan as a threat. nuclear politics cost the country tonight a look at the debate over nuclear power and why some are now trying to capitalize on this disaster and then its international day against the odds for the taliban so i ask if it's an issue that's getting better or worse is world gotten sick and that's. what drives the world the fear mongering

used by politicians who makes decisions considered breakthrough it's already been made who can you trust no one who is interview with the obama machinery see where are we cutting state controlled capitalism it's called sessions when nobody dares to ask what we do r t a question more. leg. lifts.

the end of. the day the way. hey guys welcome to show and tell the obama show we've heard what our guests have to say on the topic now we want to hear audience is going to you tube the video response or the twitter profile of the questions that we've posted on you tube every monday and on the first day of the show your responses we played your voice. as we continue to watch the crisis in japan unfold after last friday's nine point zero magnitude earthquake and the following tsunami the situation only seems to be

getting worse the death toll is now estimated to be over ten thousand people aftershocks keeping the country at a nuclear crisis is unfolding at the fukushima daiichi plant where we've seen numerous explosions and radiation leakage is now prompted mass evacuations and a no fly zone covering a ninety mile radius around the facility but here at home watching this disaster has turned into playing politics preventing on which shall you turn on you might be told that this is a clear sign that nuclear power is dangerous the we need alternatives and that the u.s. is safe. nuclear power production is kind of a high wire act and the whole idea behind what you're doing depends on this plant controlling a nuclear chain reaction you really can't afford anything that might interrupt your control. or you might see exactly the opposite there are no reports of leaks president obama today said we need to focus on what he calls clean

energy i would say if a nuclear reactor can survive this devastation it's a pretty good real world test that we should give nuclear energy more of a chance. one thing here is clear whenever there is a crisis there is always somebody willing to capitalize on it so how are we supposed to know what's in our best interests how are we supposed to make educated decisions for our future where this crisis is me is christopher chambers georgetown university professor and author of the blog as revenge chris thanks so much for being you now of course the situation japan is unfolding as we speak i just heard breaking news that there is another fire at this plant and another reactor so it's obvious that there's going to be you know a bit of confusion when it comes to the reporting that the facts aren't always going to be straight but have you noticed the instance politicized patient i think every i mean this is a political hot potato energy generally nuclear power and it's got all the

hysterical elements that the press wants when the press kind of advocates its watchdog rule and just because it's theory or mongar i mean when you saw that with the with the oil spill in the gulf people more investigating the root causes and the lack of regulation or what you know sweetheart deals were going on in the exploration of the construction and shoddy materials it's just mysterious theory is theory of what's going on keeping score that's what's happening here so of course you're going to have people lining up on both sides so you know nukes no nukes are going to destroy the world or oh it's not so bad i mean the this is this is business as usual you know walt thousands of people are dead and you know i mean i think that the press obviously of these types of situations those who do have the resources at their disposal to send people to japan to be covering us from on the ground i think they do a good job at that but then what's the point if you have those resources if there are so many so many pictures so many visuals to then be bringing in pundits and

various lobbyists from you know from different groups well because that's the model we have it's going to generate ratings when you have people lining up and telling people what they want to hear their preconceived notions have. some egghead from some think tank talking about you know the fire and the steam and you know whether this person might have kind of a a cautious nuclear energy or a more aggressive one that's boring you know but when you can when you can hit hit hit you know we can't do this we can't this is going to kill us all if we have nuclear power or it's not that bad you know this is an act of god a nine point zero earthquake i mean this is something out of a movie for god's sake that is more you know ratings driven analysis is going to take a backseat and that's what you have and it's basically as i said you know business as usual despite the people on the ground reporting the facts hopefully the japanese government is trying to sort this out q but even though they are having their problems me in europe they're taking some reactors offline to check them you

know which is fine i mean what does that mean that nuclear power is going to destroy the world no they're just being cautious but at the same time if the press is doing its job you can you can kind of peel out that layer of what's hysteria and what's just people being cautious but again we can't do that because we're so tied into this let's take sides and fight paradigm and we internally of course see reactions here like you mentioned germany is taking some of their reactors out finally go back to the b.p. oil spill last summer when you know instantly because there is such an outrage over this because it was being covered up by the media then obama decided to engineer a moratorium on drilling fast forward to today and he is now telling the fact that he has signed a new contract for new drilling so they can avoid having to talk about the fact that his administration is also pushing for nuclear power and i'm sure that a couple of months from now people might forget all about carol of course and again nobody do the the investigative work i mean t.v.

definitely not i mean not not our t.v. but you know the major networks definitely not they created newspapers and websites that have done a fairly good job of keeping on top of the root causes we were talking about. this in japan or the b.p. oil spill but again the media is not investigating the media is just putting it out there almost as there's a horror show as entertainment as a horror movie rather than really investigating it so whether you're an official in japan that might have some shoddy work you know fukushima or you're trying to push nuclear power here or you're an anti-nuclear activists i mean you've got the stage now because the mainstream media is not doing its watchdog role but at the end of the day who is it that loses out it's people like you and i right it's our family how are we supposed to know. and course that we did have a how are we now supposed to know and make decisions about what type of energy we think we might want our country to be investing in what we want our taxpayer

dollars going towards you know if somebody says that i have a form of energy for you that carries absolutely no rights are americans going to be willing to do that at double the price i don't know i mean because again the media is not doing its education the media is just they're putting on a horror show right now and you can't make rational decisions either personal or policy wise with that kind of atmosphere so i really don't know i don't think we can make rational decision on the future of this energy source or any other in this current atmosphere but in the end of the day yes this is a nine point zero earthquake everybody on either side is going to have to at least admit that but after that they just fall back into their old patterns and so we're in trouble and i think you know yesterday on this program to we were talking about the fact that so many americans now have have turned against science that's not really sound right that we we tell our kids to really learn any more right now they don't you don't strive to be an astrophysicist anymore you want to strive to get

rich and so what happens is when you turn your back on science when you have this intellectual ism then of course we're not going to know right and only we're not told that we supposedly can believe this who we think we see on t.v. exactly exactly the pundits are. believe the people who are going to rappel soon are all believes the people who are the real experts you know they're going to might have their point of view we don't want to listen to them because that's boring that's cool that's not really going to grab it and you can't make a decision and. i thank you so much for joining us tonight. that's a is the international day against police brutality today to reflect on and work to fix broken justice systems crooked cops to highlight those countless videos that we've seen of raids gone wrong or innocent victims have lost their lives to ask if the problem is getting better or only worse so joining me to discuss it is hip hop journalist david thanks so much for joining us today you know we talk about police brutality and its international police brutality david let's talk specifically

about america do you think this is something that is getting better or is it only getting worse are we starting to see more of it. i think it's getting worse for a couple of reasons the first and foremost is that you have a situation where good cops aren't speaking up you don't see them holding press conferences you don't see them taking bold stances to denounce any wrongdoing within their own ranks so it leaves people with an us vs them type of perception the second thing is that you have a scenario where a lot of laws are being put on the books primarily by rich folks who fear the impoverished nation that is rapidly coming up so for example here in oakland you have a lot of people that are getting tickets and getting their cars booted by police so they're running into the police and this is a revenue generating scheme by our city council you have other situations where property owners are now calling the police more and more because they want

panhandle those from out of their store or people who are a lot of ring who don't have a job and cetera et cetera so the point that i'm getting at is that you have that sort of engagement happening more and more and it's not just the you know the traditional folks who you would stereotype as being the ones to come across law enforcement and then lastly you have a situation where. you know there was a third point that i was going to make with the police themselves are passing laws for example you have several states or cities where you can't videotape them and then you're seeing video evidence of police misconduct so that becomes a situation where you're looking in you're saying well are you guys willing to be accountable for your actions you have all the tools all the laws on your side you have. situations where pundits are or are talking on your behalf what about pursuit in serie the citizens who feel that they are being mistreated what recourse

do they have now the last thing which would have been you being able to fill your tape them you have the police standing up and rejecting that sort of situation so no i don't think it's getting better i think it's getting worse now you mention of course of this brings in revenue perhaps or some class warfare going on because there's also still an issue of race in america do you still think that blacks and latinos are unfairly targeted by the police absolutely i mean in many of the latino communities with the aid of ice and the various laws that are coming down there that are in place and definitely where you have law enforcement saying well you know where even though we have a situation where many of the police chiefs say that it's not a good thing for them to act there's ice agents there are programs in place and in places like arizona and in some parts of texas where that is the case so yes that is becoming a situation you also have the quote unquote war on terror so there was just

recently an article that talked about how police departments are being trained to look for the caught on called terrorists and those terrorists aren't the lone wolf types or so they're described males who we've seen do terrorist acts it's usually the middle easterners and muslims who they're supposed to be profiling looking out for and protecting us from cultivations around the world texting now of course you mentioned that. these days there's a lot of pushback when it comes to videotape but videotaping cell phone cameras they've also opened up a lot for us that's why we got to see the rodney king beating that's how they got to see the murder of oscar grant on video but at the end of the day you know the sentencing when it came to the top of the oscar grant case a lot of people would say was very soft serve as law enforcement when no matter what opinion of the day that's the perception which is why i was saying that it's got worse when you take a look at the ask a grand situation now don't leave people do not add any police departments or

unions come up and announce it if anything they're going to sacramento in your lobby behind johannes noisily and then he got a light sentence and from what we're hearing he's not really doing hard time it's like a country club jail so the situation is well how egregious does the act have to be before a cop is is justly convicted you know there was eighteen months played here in the bay area to finally get this cop on trial and to get a little conviction and he did have what it was a slap on the recipient of the day and then you go all the way back to work twenty years ago with rodney king which is where all of the videotaping really came into the forefront and what it was cops do they got acquitted so i mean for the average person who feels that the police aren't always acting in their best interests video cam video taping should have been the equalizer and it winds up it's one of not being that way right a lot of thank you very much for joining us today and of course you know the reason we're talking about it is.