on washington journal tomorrow morning, we will discuss afghanistan with michael o'hanlon ambassador christopher hill has an update on iraq. we will focus on the health-care debate with representatives christopher murphy and joe barton. also, we have mike allen, the chief white house correspondent for "the politico." >> join the conversation on civil rights and race relations with npr and fox news analyst juan williams live in two weeks.

a smack our guest is michael o'hanlon, the senior fellow. thank you for being with us. tell us what you think the main success in afghanistan. >> guest: in terms of time and will take a while. both probably take a year to see the strategy is working and probably frankly three to nine years of sustained effort it for the afghans and many in the main way to describe the difference in afghanistan of violence against civilians never been nearly as severe as in iraq and obviously has been quite tragic for troops. 55 for nato over all and there have been a lot of attacks on u.n. troops and afghan forces but the finding is more of the taliban and against the uniformed military police and a lot of what we have to do is two any afghans of banking carry on that fight. the route we have to bring down the level of ourselves immediately as a country was at risk of being torn apart in afghanistan is different about building a stake or none has existed as a different towns and in some ways easier despite what is commonly said because again the violence is not nearly as widespread and,

so with that six-month mark, michael o'hanlon joins us now.et's talk first about the ayatollah in iran today, pushing back very hard, so the leaders in iran pushing back hard against rafsanjani and the other protesters from the friday prayers. . >> hi, andrea. i think we have to assume on iran that in the short-term, the more repressed elements of the state will prevail. ahmadinejad, ayatollah khamene. as you say, they're already pushing back against protesters and cut back the street protests to a very small size. even if those protests continue, they are not at the tens of thousands of size we saw initially. so in the short-term, the hardliners will win, but there is enough ferment in iran to give some longer-term hope, unfortunately, not soon enough to address the nuclear crisis where iran could have a bomb, but over the longer term, somewhat hopeful. >> hillary clinton is in new delhi today, wrapping up a three-day trip to india. interestingly, she did not couple this trip to india with a trip to pakistan, which used to be absolutely requi

host: our guest is michael o'hanlon and we're talking about u.s. foreign policy in afghanistan. democrats, 202-737-0002. republicans, 202-737-0001. independents, 202- 628-0205. how do you think americans are viewing the war in afghanistan versus the war in iraq? guest: mike overall view is americans are a little tired of all this stuff. afghanistan will become the longest war in history sometime in the course of this year. it has been a much lower level of violence and much less catastrophic for our country. it does not change the fact that more than 700 americans have died there. many troops have been taken away from their families on repeated the plymouth. -- repeated deployments. and iran's nuclear program, so afghanistan has to compete with a lot of other issues. reports on the casualties' we suffered tend to be on page 10 of the newspaper. we have had our bolivia'bloodie, but those stories are typically buried in the back of the newspaper. host: look at the story in usa today on page 4a. host: how do these numbers affect the direction of the obama administration? guest: the

on washington journal tomorrow morning, we will discuss afghanistan with michael o'hanlon ambassador christopher hill has an update on iraq. we will focus on the health-care debate with representatives christopher murphy and joe barton. also, we have mike allen, the chief white house correspondent for "the politico." >> join the conversation on civil rights and race relations with npr and fox news analyst juan williams live in two weeks. >> defense secretary robert gates said today that the army would temporarily and 20,000 more soldiers. his comments came at a half-hour news conference with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and to mike mullen. >> good afternoon, today, i am announcing a decision to temporarily increase the active it duty strength of the army by about 22,000. that is a temporary increase from the current authorized and permanent strength of 547,000 two unauthorized temporary strength of 5069 -- 569,000. surely after taking office and mindful of the decision to surge additional forces into iraq, i recommended and the president and congress approved the size o