afghanistan -- if we leave or stay, afghanistan is still going to be violent for years to come. i think there has to be a significant diplomatic push. finally, we are getting there. the tragedy is it took hundreds of more american lives. for me, winning is convincing everyone that we won. that, to me, is a fairly sad state of affairs. tavis: in 30 seconds, reminding people about your new book -- let me ask what it means that this story has gotten this kind of attraction in a place like " rolling stone"? there is a piece with julian assange on the new cover. what does it mean that "rolling stone" is the place stories are being broken? work on goldman sachs was ground breaking. dickenson on the environment. our occupy wall street coverage has been incredible. i could not have gotten this story published almost anywhere else but "rolling stone." that is the truth. if a public it somewhere else, they would have very good stuff, the material people really needed to read. it is a testimony to jann wenner, the publisher, and my editors, to take this risk. when the flak comes, and invar

special report from afghanistan. and kathy as. they get that you know i should look up and involve them in joe you actually come out there let me up on. my list of where you have already. been in front of. not only. are you going on in your. you have two schools they have that i too would works with let's men's and the ministry is one that woman is asian enjoys i'm so i'm i'm supposed to say there were many factors equal to and felt they were still there with two alike and each university's dick with this is freedom's. in your body no one respects the lozier on the mother all one they can look. live on for their own goods for their protection either through all that he wrote above. well you know if women don't wear their headscarf they will be harassed raped injured and humiliated. whole there is no longer move the gun is the law we have the woman in parliament we have the woman in media we have the woman in the universities we have the women in the government we have ministers and you can imagine that this that the suspect that t

afghanistan is not like another. european country to have discord takes it encourage a woman it be more about her rights and tell her that you have that's your right to have access to education to go to disco and it's going to look at it jeff in front of her door the husband doesn't allow to buy that i've been allowed to have but the joy from our freedom it gets for me it's been to. them too don't go to school or university it's clear that women do good. it's a little bit like going out into the villages to convince people with regard to birth control what you've really got to do is you've got to get local people local religious leaders and local social workers etc who are going to go out you can have westerners going now and you can have westerners who are have a high profile in that country because they deal with the local people go out the local people say you're not here as afghans or as pakistanis or as indonesians you are here because these american christian groups. you see are trying to impose on us a social

hundred billion dollars in afghanistan. the war and the war for the rights of the children afghanistan is. the second country from the down put there for the poverty afghanistan is the highest. and the war of. each fifteen minutes one woman dies. in maternal mortality because of lack of access to the clinic quite a lot of money has arrived in afghanistan to improve the situation of women but i don't think it has brought many improvements. expectation that to be the suspect it has a women has a human i'm not cussing that has a sub sub classes or subhuman so that's all right but we need and what we fight for the. welfare of those of us. download the official. to i phone or i pod touch from the i.q. exam still. life on the go. video on demand ati's mind broadcasts and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the t.v. dot com. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everythin

close in afghanistan or. really where are the rights of women are protected they want to stay there and what are they were managed to run away because of domestic violence they were not about to continue with that. kind of terrible life they bought on their way home and then being there as men drafted their husband traffic and then the way they stopped by. police you know like that but up there mark bannerman and then turned their back to their village. or they didn't want them to any women organization reported they hadn't turned into the park and at the moment affairs which is a sponsor about that they get up if you shoot maybe turn them back you go well and the religious with a warlord with a powerful. monday. before give them the handcuffs that had been the flag theme on the public plate. and each of them subject forty five flashes in a public place in front of all religious. and he kept them or find. a quote to six thousand dollars. definitely he put there had been partly because. you put shame on the vi

afghanistan is the warst and the award for the rights of the children afghanistan is. the second country from the down put there for the power to afghanistan is the highest. and the award of maternal mortality that each fifteen minutes one woman dies from in my turn maternity because of lack of access to the clinic what a lot of money has arrived in afghanistan to improve the situation of women but i don't think it has brought many improvements have expectation that to be respected . as a woman has a human i'm not cussing that has a separate classes or subhuman so that's all right but we need and what we fight for the. welfare of those of us. one hank one. was one. with one . question is that so much i know in which of course you write on account of them so here's a the price of crude remains stubbornly high and consumers feel the pinch but why are energy prices so high because of the lack of supply and security. the world for the future science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. happiness and tragedy. dev

when i see afghanistan, -- say afghanistan, what triggers in your mind? >> the terrain is as formidable in difficult as the people. [laughter] >> interesting. >> the people in our rural areas, predominately were we are fighting, the people live in peace with the land as much as possible. if they do not save enough food, they start in the winter. there are valleys shot off because of snow fall. when there are rivers flooding, there is not much to mitigate them. it is a very primal existence. >> it is agrarian? >> overwhelmingly. >> so, what is the population of afghanistan? >> a lot of people to not realize that it is physically and numerically larger than the country of iraq. most of the taliban are focused in the 50% or 60% that is pashtun. it is around 23 million or so. >> the bordering countries are? >> to the east is extant -- pakistan. to the west is iran. to the north is was the pakistan -- was back to stand. >> that is enough. the culture -- kai reed everything from warm and hospitable -- i read everything from war and possible, too, you mentioned,

well the end of an era on the horizon in afghanistan u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta has announced that america's longest war is coming to an end by next year the u.s. and nato aims to draw down troops and end combat and afghanistan now it wasn't too long ago that americans watched as u.s. troops and tanks rolled out of iraq but after their exit iraq remains in a state of instability and violence as insurgents fight to gain a stronghold in the country now in transition and the last time the u.s. ended a war without a decisive victory was in vietnam back in one nine hundred seventy five it was an end to an extremely unpopular war the capital of south vietnam fell to the communist north two americans were killed thousands fled the u.s. embassy it was the single largest helicopter evacuation in history while this may be exactly what the u.s. is trying to avoid as they plan their departure from afghanistan the way the u.s. leaves afghanistan has the potential to define the entire war and if you remember the last people to exit afghanistan

or syria. >> mark, your thoughts on afghanistan? >> after 10 years, we might have learned that burning korans is not helpful, is harmful, threatening. there is no question that on both sides we have people in afghanistan who want as o-- want us out, anti-americans who are exploiting this. it is what it is. the reality is that afghanistan is a loser and the quicker we are out, the better. >> newt had the best word on this. he said we are going to apologize for the burning of koran, ok, but let's demand from the government of afghanistan an apology for the killing of two americans. i agree that is in rages -- this enrages americans. we have people dying in afghanistan said that women can have the dignity and girls and go to school and people can have the freedom and democracy. clearly this is a culture where that is not welcome. again, i think that the two- parties share the problem and the responsibility, because it was the democrats, i will remind you, in 2004, for about five or six years who argued that afghanistan was the good war

>> yes, ma'am. >> and what type of role are they playing in afghanistan? >> well, they have provided arms, they have been caught -- i mean, we have found them running arms in afghanistan, so they are working what we would call a duel track strategy as they work not only to work against u.s. and coalition desires in there, but while at the same time they want to put forward the government of afghanistan, so they're walking a very fine line. >> but they're clearly supporting our enemies and trying to kill our soldiers? >> yes, ma'am. >> and in iraq, what role are they playing right now, now that we've withdrawn, and how would describe their role there? >> i would describe their role in much the same way as i did in afghanistan, as a very duel track. iran does not want a strong iraq on their border, but at the same time, they also want to, you know, encourage us out of there totally. so, again, they're walking both sides of the fence. >> so, again, they're working contrary to a stable iraq and they're also working contrary to our national security interests?

cutting and running from afghanistan good or bad?pat. >> frankly, i believe that we are going to have to get out of there, and i believe the end is going to be terrible. but i felt that ever since we -- we should have gone in initially knocked them over, taken care of al-qaeda the boast we could, told them don't let this happen again and left. we put in 10 years now -- lot of blood and treasure, and i think it's all going to be -- >> it's responsible winding down of a war that's already gone on for 10 years. if the taliban is not some outside factor. they are afghans, and they -- sort out that government themselves. >> had is the impact of this on the re-election of barack obama? >> i think it will help him in the short run through 2012. but if he is re-elected, americans will be very unhappy. >> how much is a lever in this getting him reelected. >> i think obama is on the right side of getting out of iraq politically, and politically getting out of afghanistan for 2012. by 2016, it's another story. >> will he stay in afghanistan thr

decimating al qaeda -- that was the purpose for going into afghanistan. we lnched scessfully to get osama bin laden. now how do we disengage? we have to do that. >> how to disengage and keep tabs on what is happening in pakistan? >> that is the problem. >> the irony is that people think of pakistan as the problem in our dealing with afghanistan, but it is the opposite. afghanistan had the strategic value only. -- onlys as a place from which you could intervene in afkistan. it at the wedding will be a problem. the only answer is to have india -- evacuate will be a problem. the only etc. india take our role. why us? it should be the indians. >> indians and pakistanis have always been close. [laughter] iraq, afghanistan and, now the war drums for iran -- is it too much to ask that before we send americans into peril and combat and death, that we have a debate in the cars of the united states and a vote -in the congress of the united states in a vote, up or down -- >> we had that. what you talking about? >> the issue we need to worry about is thinking about f

. >>> issue two, afghanistan cutting and running?>> our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace, as afghan security forces move into the lead. our mission will change from combat to support. >> president obama last june 22nd, 2011 laid out his plan to end the u.s. war in afghanistan. the longest war in u.s. history. the war has cost the u.s. 1774 lives, and over currently spending $2 billion a week. commander in chief obama says that the u.s. involvement in afghanistan would shift, fighting the taliban directly, no. advising and training the afghanistan military and security forces to the taliban directly, yes. this week defense secretary leon panetta nailed down the drawdown. the u.s. combat mission will end as early as mid-2013. roughly 18 months away. the u.s. announcement comes on the heels of french president nick lahr sarkozy saying tout a french troops from afghanistan, the fourth largest con tinge only of trooby 2013, a year ahead of the u.s. >> for france the pursuit of the transition and the gradual transfer of co

when we come back, afghanistan!progressive saved me so much money on car insurance, this baggage fee is on me. did you check that bag? houston? well, welcome to savingsville. did you pay $25 for that bag fee? yeah. you did? with all the money i saved on progressive car insurance, i'll take care of that bag fee. woman: you're so kind! thank you! you guys just landed in savingsville. [laughs] yes, we did! you made my day. do you want to pay our college tuition, too? >>> issue two, afghanistan cutting and running? >> our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace, as afghan security forces move into the lead. our mission will change from combat to support. >> president obama last june 22nd, 2011 laid out his plan to end the u.s. war in afghanistan. the longest war in u.s. history. the war has cost the u.s. 1774 lives, and over currently spending $2 billion a week. commander in chief obama says that the u.s. involvement in afghanistan would shift, fighting the taliban directly, no. advising and training the afgha

network and the regime supports in afghanistan the taliban. regime is now in retreat across much of the country and the people of afghanistan especially women are rejoicing and women are the bush administration with blatche to the issue of the oppression of women now women were oppressed a long time and you never heard anybody talk about it but when the u.s. wanted to invade all this. president. bush. said military. and women are no longer imprisoned in their home they can listen to music and teach their daughters without fear of punishment the fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women the media talking to the whole country saying how we are going to liberate the women of afghanistan. can liberate their people you can liberate. and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun. unfortunately now that the recent permanent civil war was that we were once again imprisoned by the fear. and things are going backwards somewhat . when i was fifteen years old now i have six children. are stuff that is twenty f

troops will leave afghanistan by next year but as the u.s. looks forward to the end game will take a look back at a decade of war and question of what's exactly going accomplished. and. the big the big the big the big you stand stand i'm going to say you know i don't know. americans say the darndest things unfortunately these people are the politicians we elect to lead the country i guess ignorance isn't always bliss. it's thursday february second or pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r t. well the end of an arrow on the horizon in afghanistan u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta has announced that america's longest war is coming to an end by next year the u.s. and nato aims to draw down troops and end all combat in afghanistan with this pullout and the official end of the war we want to take a minute to look back at what this all means and what has actually been accomplished there while the last time the u.s. ended a war without a decisive victory was in vietnam for many of the fall of saigon left a bitter taste in thei

-- and what of afghanistan's future? many afghans from the government to the armed forces when they fear the taliban will be back in power. bbc news, kabul. >> for more on the fallout from this report, i spoke to a senior from the senator for -- for the center for american progress a short time ago. these allegations have been around for a long time. but having them in this secret, leaked in nato report, is it important? >> at least for the last five years, we have heard about pakastani support for the taliban. i think the most damaging part of this report are the notes that indicate afghan security forces and officials in the afghan government are working with elements of the taliban and some of the weapons we are providing the afghan security forces are in pakistan and other places. it demonstrates our real problem that cuts into the happy talk in the sugar coating. >> leon panetta said that u.s. forces will be out of their combat role within the next year. what happens to pakistan? >> i think instability will rise. a

focuses on the continuing violence in afghanistan that's next. welcome to the launch shall we look at the real headlines with none of the mersey who live in washington d.c. now tonight we're going to speak to scott horton about the continued violence in afghanistan and what it means for the trained forces that the u.s. and nato troops are supposed to leave behind there then our monday hangover panel we're going to talk about oil prices the ties between housing and student debt and what rick santorum has to say for the separation of church and state and wiki leaks is beginning to publish five million e-mails from the analysis company stratfor sort of look into the details of this latest dump with kevin gusto let him have all that work in a night including a dozen happy hour but first take a look with the mainstream media has decided to miss. this morning there are some very sad and disturbing news the dominated the television screens as there was yet another shooting on a school campus and u.s. this time in ohio. at least four students injured whe

in certain parts of afghanistan. we really do not have a stable transition plan. transition is the label the obama administration and others use your. it is not clear to me we have the political and economic foundation in afghanistan. >> what if all gotta -- what if al-qaeda once again finds a stronghold in afghanistan -- it's that instability spills over into of anniston, that could affect the rest of the world? >> absolutely. we've seen a great deal of internal conflict over the last three decades. it would indicate it has been at war with itself for quite some time. these things are not close to being resolved. >> when you look at the nadir report suggesting the insurgents themselves are saying -- at the nato report suggesting the insurgents themselves are confident they will retake afghanistan, what you think? >> i think these insurgents are trying to explain things in a certain way. >> they are spending it? >> yes, they are spending it -- spinning it. i think the important point, the complicity of some parts of

say afghanistan say it's simply not enough. apologies and not enough so. they have to be put on trial and the culprits should face the law so how will this incident affect the current war in afghanistan and how could this have been handled differently to help me answer some of those questions i'm joined by derek rowe policy director at brave new foundation derek it appears that these apologies from the president from the general are falling on deaf ears. well it's falling on deaf ears because i think you're right the people of afghanistan are particularly moved by these apologies i think the continuing violence shows that and i think the reason that they're not particularly moved by it is that this is one of several ongoing cultural insults being perpetrated by the occupation forces there not least of which is the frequent invasion of afghan homes by u.s. special operations forces and when you have a situation where a foreign force is in your country repeatedly violating the cultural standards of your country it's absolutely un

strategy in afghanistan? >> well, i think there's no question that the safe havens have been and remain a problem. it's difficult for the afghans and ourselves and our nato allies to decisively defeat an enemy who can take sanctuary and maintain its headquarters in another country. we've been clear about that. we've been public about that. the pakistani government needs to take action for their own sake as well as afghanistan's and ours. >> u.s. ambassador ryan crocker, thank you so much for your time. >>> after the break, president obama seems confident about his re-election chances, but will rising gas prices get in the way? obama campaign senior adviser robert gibbs joins us. >>> and later, secretary of state hillary clinton emerges in a new interview as the president's biggest advocate later in the hour. i am loving this greek yogurt. i like yoplait. it is yoplait. but you said it was greek. mmhmm. so is it greek or is it yoplait? exactly. okay... [ female announcer ] yoplait. it is so greek. >>> joining

in afghanistan back in two thousand and nine on the presumption that you know we're going to keep afghanistan from going you know falling back into the hands of al qaeda well al qaeda is an image again a stand in the taliban confirm that. some parts of this report have been leaked to a couple of media outlets want to point out a specific quote here that is quite telling quote many afghans are already bracing themselves for an eventual return of the taliban the afghan government continues to declare its willingness to fight yet many of its personnel have secretly reached out to insurgents seeking long term options in the event of a possible taliban victory so this shows that the taliban may be working with our allies and i can imagine that these arguments going behind the scenes is something that the u.s. isn't very happy about no this is the one part of the report i've been told by friends of mine at the pentagon this is the one part of what has leaked out about this report that has the u.s. government especially the pentagon absolutely furious. at any suggestion that our karzai government an

employees in afghanistan characterizes the rosy reports of steady progress in afghanistan. mr. speaker, if we are going to ask our brave men and women in uniform to continue to risk their life in afghanistan, the least we can do is be frank and honest about how we are doing in afghanistan. our southlandiers deserve to know the truth and the american people deserve to know the truth after spending the past decade fighting wars. the war in afghanistan has already taken the lives of almost 19,000 soldiers and drained our treasury of over $500 billion in direct costs. those costs will only go up as we spend trillions of dollars for long-term care on our veterans which we must do. we are set to spend an additional $88 billion in afghanistan over the next year while domestic cuts in education, health care, roads, bridges and other essential priorities are sacrificed. again, i repeat, it is time to bring our troops home from afghanistan, not in 2014 not next year but right now. let me conclude by saying that as the daughter of a 25-year army officer who served in two wars i salute our

ambassador to afghanistan ryan crocker. thanks for spending part of your morning here with us in studio 7. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> simmering anti-western sentiment in afghanistan boils no a week of violent protests and 30 deaths including 4 americans. today -- is it time for the u.s. to go? a conversation with the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, ryan crocker in kabul. >>> then -- gas, taxes and 2012 with obama campaign adviser robert gibbs. >> and -- >> good to be back in michigan. >> good to be here in tucson. >> republican politics. plus their recent trip to afghanistan. rapid increasing gas prices. how high and how long? with former ceo of shell oil. i'm candy crowley. and this in is "state of the union." the afghan government says the man who killed two american soldiers inside a highly secured afghan government building is an afghan intelligence officer. president hamid karzai has offered condolences to the families of the four americans killed since news that u.s. personnel apparently inadvertently b

they are based in afghanistan, but their work is focused on pakistan. up at the border, we were stopped from filming them... but a former commander agreed to talk if his identity was protected. >> who were those guys? >> smith: the wikileaks war logs, released in 2010, contain references to the cia's private army in khost. they fire mortars at taliban and al qaeda targets in pakistan. with the help of drones, "shadow coverage," they ambush and kill insurgent fighters crossing the border. >> smith: pakistan is supposed to be an ally in the war against the taliban and al qaeda, but u.s. soldiers fighting along the border complain that pakistan's army supports the militants. >> from my time on the border, we experienced on a regular basis pakistani military complicity with the insurgency. it could be turning a blind eye as the insurgents launch rockets at our bases. it could be allowing passage, you know, kind of right under their noses. it could be even aiding and working with the insurgents to know what times to cross the border, telling them when our pa

it's time to cut the loss, get out of afghanistan.ee with rush here. >> what do you think, dana. >> that could be the place that i get to after i make my other point, which is that it was the democrats who for years said that afghanistan was the good war. that that was the one we should be fighting. that that was the one that mattered and that iraq was the bad war. >> obama comes in, makes a decision, a courageous one it send more troops, based on what he inherited from bush. he does not keep up with the karzai government. karzai is a tough one, and a weak leader. so, now, what we have is a situation that the violence in afghanistan is worse today than it was when president obama took office. there's a lot of reasons for that. but for them to say now that we should leave, based on the good work to president obama has done when the violence is worse, i don't think that they should be allowed to get away with that and i also think that freedom is transformational and that-- or transformtive. that they deserve the right to freedom. in th

i got a visa and went to afghanistan. actually went on a few trips both with the troopers in the field and also at headquarters, and at some point i think he realized i was taking this research seriously, sharing hardships with the troops and risk and so forth. we had a relationship before i went there as far as this dissertation was concerned, so it just took it to another level. >> given your time, paula, in afghanistan, i just want to ask you about some news today where we're hearing about the secret u.s. military report, that the taliban are poised to retake afghanistan as soon as nato leaves. in fact, i want to tell you something petraeus said just yesterday. >> there is nothing easy about afghanistan. as we used to say, it's all hard all the time, but it's also all-important all the time. there is a reason we went there in the wake of 9/11. we have hugely important national security interests there, and it's very important to that country, to the region and the world that we do everything possible to try to get that

well the end of an era on the horizon in afghanistan u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta has announced that america's longest war is coming to an end by next year the u.s. and nato anges to draw down troops and end all combat in afghanistan with this pull out in the official end of the war we want to take a look at what a look back at what this means and what has actually been accomplished well the last time the u.s. entered a war without a decisive victory was in vietnam for many of the fall of saigon left a bitter taste in their mouths it was in many ways an end to an extremely unpopular war and the early hours of april thirtieth one thousand nine hundred eighty five the capital of south vietnam fell to the communist north two americans were killed and thousands fled the u.s. embassy and were evacuated it was the single largest helicopter evacuation in history well this may be exactly what the u.s. is trying to avoid as they plan their departure from afghanistan the way the u.s. leaves the country has the potential to define the entire

actions in afghanistan is a lot website for the moment r.t. dot com there you can also find out about america's massive defense costs the u.s. congress has approved eighty million dollars to build a new bunker busting super bomb would be order from the pentagon marked urgent. and also in light of the moment a year of rebuilding has pulled japan from the rubble these pictures showed the streets immediately after last year's earthquake and tsunami and what they look like today. personal stories of survivors and more of these images for you right now at r.t. dot com. some other international news in brief this hour israeli on the gaza left one civilian dead and four others injured the man killed was a guard of the farm israeli army confirmed the bombing saying they were aimed at sites belonging to terror groups and were a response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. has deported the young saudi blogger who's wanted in his home country for his remarks on twitter the journalist sparked outrage in the kingdom last week after he tweeted that he