in afghanistan, iraq and elsewhere. but even as the united states winds down its wars, these workers remain critical to american facilities around the world. >> the problem doesn't go away because we're still going to have needs of support both for department of defense and department of state. now they're starting to use third country nationals for bases in djibouti and other parts of africa as well. >>> the taliban strikes? southern afghanistan killing five people and at 13 policemen and seven soldiers. ♪ ♪ >>> i am richelle carey, you are watching al jazerra live from doha. also on the program. the south sudanese government says its forces have retaken the capital of the oil-rich upper nile state. we'll have the latest on the mass grave found in malaysia. a reporter is headed to the scene deep in the jungle. one year after india's prime minister

in afghanistan iraq and elsewhere. united states winds down its wars, these workers remain critical to american facilities around the world. >> the problem doesn't go away, because we're still going to have needs of support both for department of defense and department of state. now they're starting to use third country nationals for bases in djibouti and other parts of africa as well. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight gross is on the verge of bankruptcy. it desperately needs bailout cash. who will blink first in this dangerous game? the clock is ticking on a greek financial drama that has the official to become a tragedy for greece and the rest of europe. it is a tragedy that could have ugly implications for the entire global financial system if greece

in afghanistan, iraq and elsewhere. but even as the united states winds down its wars, these workers remain critical to american facilities around the world. >> the problem doesn't go away because we're still going to have needs of support both for department of defense and department of state. now they're starting to use third country nationals for bases in djibouti and other parts of africa as well. >> on hard earned, down but not out, >> i'm in recovery i've been in recovery for 23 years... >> last shot at a better life... >> this is the one... this is the one... >> we haven't got it yet... >> it's all or nothing... >> i've told walgreen's i quit... >> hard earned pride... hard earned respect... hard earned future... a real look at the american dream hard earned only on al jazeera america >> part of our month long look at working in america. "hard earned". o. >> the south sudanese government says it's retain the upper nile state. this is al jazeera i'm darren jordan in doha. also ahead on the program. the price of wa

goodbye to afghanistan.ou again. >> devin jones: those images are burned in your head, man. they never go away. they never go away. >> pelley: afghanistan did not leave golf company's devin jones. like many others, jones brought the war home. >> jones: it was rough. i didn't do anything during the day. i moved at night and that was it. >> pelley: the anxiety of post traumatic stress left him isolated and jobless. >> jones: you're getting closer to closer to being on the streets. you're getting eviction notices. you're getting those and you're just like, "man, this is bad." >> pelley: did you lose the apartment? >> jones: yeah. i ended up losing it. i ended up... >> pelley: where'd you go? >> jones: for a little while, i stayed in my storage unit. >> pelley: you were living in a storage unit? >> jones: yeah. yeah, staying in the storage unit. >> pelley: why aren't you reaching out for help? >> jones: i felt like a complete idiot, like, a complete failure. i went from being a very proud combat, you know, veter

folks read it in afghanistan. the ones who read it were not my friends that i served with, but they were basically spot checking it for all the slang when i wrote it. i basically was writing everything at first, this is how i remembered it, but i ran it by a couple of afghans to make sure i had it right in pashtun. there are many places where aziz just slip into the pashtun words. i, you know, if you read the acknowledgments in the book, you know i mention i don't suspect many of the afghans i follow are going to be reading this not only because they're not lovers of american fiction, you know but because, you know, they're still engaged in a very remote part of the country. so it would involve the book to read it and appreciate it to be translated into pashtu and find its way into bookstores in very, very far-flung places. maybe i can talk to the gentleman at the ivy after this. [laughter] >> my second question is related to your experience as a white house fellow and -- [inaudible] i was just curious, my husband

so we better finish afghanistan. no one's arguing with you about afghanistan. you better finish that before you do iraq otherwise you're going to negligent afghanistan which is what we proceeded to do. so we shattered the global solidarity and we went to iraq with too few forces in the first place because donald rumsfeld decided that that would be the amount we would send. some of that amount was based on the give and take with the military commander tommy franks who powell had told on two different occasions you have too few troops and whom the general told the congress we had too few troops for which, of course, he was release. you had too few troops to lead iraq and that would lead about 100,000 contractors that would do the ultimate public function. war. and we're still living with it, ladies and gentlemen. still living with it. we haven't put it to rest yet. the other item that powell brought to the president's attention other than timing and foresize was legitimacy. legitimacy and the shape of the united nations, other allies other than britain and so for

going to war against afghanistan when hijackers were not afghanistan saudis and the egyptians and trains in afghanistan they train in germany, they went to flight school in minnesota and we are saying we're going to bomb afghanistan was certain to create more terrorism leaders so the first king would be to recognize what is going to create more terrorism and don't do that. that meant recognize it as a crime. recognize the need for international justice. there was a lot of talk about justice. should have been a moment to say this is why we need a viable functional system of international justice, why we were wrong to oppose the international criminal court, why we were wrong to weaken it even if we had no intention of signing on to win at the time it was negotiated. in that context to say too many people have died today and i am going to make the pledge not one more person is going to die in the pursuit of justice for those who did die. that is not a way to bring justice. it means treating it as a crime, with international engagement not telling the rest of the world's you are with us to

so we better finish afghanistan. no one's arguing with you about afghanistan. you better finish that before you do iraq otherwise you're going to negligent afghanistan which is what we proceeded to do. so we shattered the global solidarity and we went to iraq with too few forces in the first place because donald rumsfeld decided that that would be the amount we would send. some of that amount was based on the give and take with the military commander tommy franks who powell had told on two different occasions you have too few troops and whom the general told the congress we had too few troops for which, of course, he was release. you had too few troops to lead iraq and that would lead about 100,000 contractors that would do the ultimate public function. and we're still living with it, ladies and gentlemen. still living with it. we haven't put it to rest yet. the other item that powell brought to the president's attention other than timing and foresize was legitimacy. legitimacy and the shape of the united nations, other allies other than britain and so forth. w

are you from afghanistan? are you sure?" and we were really happy and felt like, presenting afghanistan and another image to the europe, not only war and violence and taliban. >> competitive skiing is new to afghanistan. they still have to worry about reaching the bottom in one piece. about fifty skiers are taking part, afghan and other athletes from around the world. it may not be the toughest race, but's a very special one. at an altitude of nearly three thousand meters, skiing is really hard work. there's no ski lift here. the climb is part of the race. the afghans' love of sports and have a talent for improvisation. sayed and the other youngsters can't afford professional equipment. so they make their own. sayed mohammad zeya: i cut the wood to size and nail on plastic from old oil bottles. and the skis are done. >> sayed and the other boys hit the slopes as well, but don't take part in the competition. their wooden skis need lots of care. 13-year-old sayed lives right next to the slope used for the race. he can't unders

disagree, i think on points such as the invasion of afghanistan in 2001. i believe was absolutely necessary when the taliban refused to hand over al qaeda central. i think we mishandled that war. >> i would agree with that. i'm just saying we occupied it for the next -- we didn't need to stay there forever. >> okay. i'm looking -- i was raise bid the jesuits but taught to work of st. augustine so the jess tattoos talk know be confrontational. st. augustine wrote the purpose of war is to build a better peace. so my argument, building on charlie wilson's war after we used afghanistan as way to defeat the yost union in the cold war and we failed to pay penny on the dollar to build a better afghanistan and that led to the a takes -- allowed the taliban to host bin laden and after toppling the taliban i believe that ground is fertile ground for bad people and terrorists and we had both a moral obligation and national security obligation to build a better afghanistan and we could have done that far more cheaply than hat been done if we had not taken our eye off

we are talking about afghanistan reconstruction, a much today we are talking about afghanistan reconstruction. our guest is special inspector general inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, also known as sigar. the figure is $110 billion so far. how has the money been spent. what has been a college? guest: quite a bit has been a commerce. the real question is could we have done it -- quite a bit has been accomplished. the real question is, could we have done it better? it is a lot of money that has been spent. it is more than we spent on the entire marshall plan, in world war ii. we have another $6 billion to $8 billion we will spend every year for years to come. host: dig right in in terms of how things could have been done. give us a couple of examples. guest: there are so many. but a classic example, we have spent billions of dollars to pay the salaries of the afghan police and the afghan military trying to develop a system to pay the salaries, and we do not even know how many troops there are. we do not know how many police there are. there are probably host police -- ghost poli

of his strategy in iraq and in afghanistan. and i thought that i would start a by doing this critique on how it has gone by saying obviously it's gone great. since september 11 we have had 14 september 11's. it's been a successful war on terror. >> not so much. >> i will try to do my best james risen impression but we agree some things we will probably clash on before he gets here but the attacks could have and should have been prevented by the national security apparatus. there were a number of indications that something was coming. this indications were missed in what i believed to be the greatest failure in history worse than pearl harbor. after the attacks of september 11 have the united states was unprepared for the kind of war it had to fight both in afghanistan and the war that it chose to fight in iraq and it chose to fight partly as a result of another intelligence detailing the leaving that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction which he had a program that was destroyed and ended after the first war in iraq af

so we did need to occupy afghanistan.nd dad is a safe haven. >> that trip is what got me started but we had already spent as a country tens of billions of dollars of reconstruction in afghanistan. in to see that evidence of tens of billions of dollars in kabul and to drive around the city there is no evidence of any improvements based on anything from economic reconstruction from the united states. it is terrible. i was thinking as a reporter where is the money going? then the reporters figured out it was calling from flights from the united states then going right back out to do by a. >> and to tell the stories of the gold rush that would cash in on the spending so we see that dubai corporations did very well with contrasting. but to listen attentively we have time for two or three. anybody who would like to move to the microphone? >> with the war on terror me over by now? two mb think there is a bitchy and some of that. >> counterfactual is always hard but as long did say counterfactual. [laughter] had we sent sufficien

so you better finish afghanistan afghanistan. no one is arguing about afghanistan. you better finish that before you go to iraq, otherwise you will neglect afghanistan, which is exactly what we proceeded to do. we shuttled global all the garrity and then donald rumsfeld decided that would be the amount i would send. tommy franks, the military commander, who he had told on two different occasions you have too few troops. general shinseki said you had too few troops, which he was released. that would lead to 100,000 plus contractors being brought on to do the ultimate public function, war. we are still living with it. we have not really put it to rest yet. the other item he brought to the president's attention, other than timing was legitimacy. legitimacy in the shape of the united nations. other allies other than britain and so forth. well we went to the u.n. in november 2002 and got this teen-zero vote, unanimous vote approving 1441. again, we had resurrected a little bit of the global solidarity. -- and got 15-0. what that did was to say that they could go and do t

these teams are winding down with the war in afghanistan. there are of course always things that are happening but officially these teams are winding down with the end of the war in afghanistan. there's a moment in the epilogue that you will see where they come back and have a year to really change their life and they have these friends that the going to love forever and the truth is the first thing that struck me in a room with these women is that they are each other's family. they step on each other's sentences and ruin each other's joke and they are each other's career counselors and baby shower hosts. they're the people hosts. there the people they taxed at 2:00 a.m. and the people they call at 2:00 a.m. exam. that will never change no matter what happens. quite honestly as a country we've never had a chance to see that. there haven't been many of these all-female teams created to answer a battlefield need. >> this is also a love story. ashley's husband was her kent state rotc sweetheart. he had just finished his own deployment to afghan

>> we wanted to go right into the future of afghanistan.become america's longest war and feels like we have been there forever. but we wanted to look at what happens when it ends, what happens after all these years of fighting, what is there. so we thought, beginning with the girls school is very important because that is one of the great accomplishments of the u.s. presence in afghanistan, one fiercely defended by most of the afghan people who want to see the schools stay long after the u.s. forces pull out. we also wanted to, of course, look at the handover because that is such an extraordinary moment about the fate of this country, how will the new afghan army and the new afghan national police take over in the future? so our photographer has done years of documenting that and i think it really comes through just how perilous a moment it is. right now it's this handover, hopefully will take place next year, 2016. of course we wanted to look at millennials because that is the generation that is the future of afghanistan, so we really want

officially these teams are winding down with the end of the war in afghanistan. there's a moment in the epilogue you will see where they have this year that is change their lives. they have these friends that they have are going to love forever and the first thing that struck me in a room with a bunch of these women was they are each other's family. they were at each other's jokes they are each other's career counselors and divorce therapist and baby shower hose. they are forever connected. they're the people that text at 2:00 a.m. and the people that call at 6:00 a.m. and that will never change no matter what happens with these teams. quite honestly is a country we have never had a chance to see that among women because there haven't been many of these teams created to answer a battlefield team. >> one thing if there's anything else you want to cover, this is also a love story. ashley's husband was her penn state rotc sweetheart. he adjusts finishes on deployment in afghanistan and he really did not initially want her to go on the mission. she tells him what she

and deployed to afghanistan. and fallen in love the first time in her life and what was so wrenching is leaving behind the person she was in love with. and she started writing him letters. they were heartfelt letters at the same time, she was writing to her parents. and when she wrote to her parents the letters were different and she was cheerful and trying to tell her parent that she was fine. they did not need to worry. so michelle comes from the unusual family i don't know if that is the right word. a different family background. better to say. and her dad was married six times to four women and he was in and out of jail. he moved a lot. her mom moved a lot. and the question was did anybody keep the letters? we went to visit her father who was living in kentucky. we were hanging out and in the trailer next to what he called a party trailer. he was in and out of trouble. he had been arrested for letting somebody make methanphetamines in a party trailer. so jackie: not the before the role model. i did not know i

military bases across iraq and afghanistan. at the height of the wars, more than 250 bases burnt their trash. releasing large plumes of black smoke into the air. during the day time it was solid black. you could smell it. depending on where the sun was, it would - it was so thick, it would block some of the sun. >> he worked as a prison guard at camp buca. he said smoke from burn pits lingered above living quarters. three years after he came home doctors found the tumor. >> it produced a lot of compounds, a lot of dioxins. for example, benzene. and a lot of ben zone-like substances were produced. it is a known human carcinogen. >> kerry baker is a former veterans' affairs officials who analysed the toxins found in smoke. since he left the agency he has been fighting to get the department of defense and v.a. to recognise that burn pit exposure sickened veterans. some were dying. we had claims from videos -- widows, we have claims from young guys who have diabetes, lymphoma or leukaemia. >> he is representing 31-year-old rodney w

it's a program that puts women on the battlefield to conduct culturally sensitive missions in afghanistan that require contact with women and children despite women being officially banned from combat. >> hello. good evening. welcome to book passage in san francisco's historic ferry building. i want to thank you all for coming out tonight to support independent bookstores and independent thinking. i also want to thank our future c-span viewers. we have c-span here with us tonight so know that you are on camera. so when we go out for the q&a we will have a mic around to capture your questions for c-span. but we are very honored tonight to welcome author and journalist gayle tzemach lemmon a senior fellow at the council of foreign relations as well as a contributor to the atlantic defense fund where she reports regularly on issues of national security and foreign policy. she is also the best selling author of the dressmaker -- the remarkable story of a community of entrepreneurial afghan women under taliban rule. she's here tonight to talk about her latest book already garnering lots of nat

so they wound up working together in afghanistan fixing broken ak-47s. and the reason they were not working on american weapons was the american guns weren't breaking as often often enough to keep their team busy. so they were actually deployed to go help the afghan national army. they were working on weapons that had been turned in from militia members in afghanistan and were being repurposed and then given to the afghan national army. really unusual to work on an ak-47 if you're an american weapons mechanic, but that's what they were doing. and while they were doing that, desma in that first deployment had a desk job. isso she was keeping track of all the work that all the maintenance teams were doing and ordering spare parts for vehicles or night vision goggles, things like that. really different than the work she wound up doing in iraq out on the highways in her second deployment. but they come back from the first deployment and even though all three have not seen what anybody would call combat, they have a moment where a struggle to transition back

it is the first since our war in afghanistan came to an end.ears that the united states is not engaged in a major ground war. so on this day we honor the sacrifice of the thousands of american service members, men and women, who gave their lives since 9/11, including more than 2,200 american patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice in afghanistan. as an arizona kid, wyatt martin loved the outdoors. he started fishing when he was 2 years old. his dad says he was pretty good for a toddler. wyatt grew to 6'4", became a hunter, and wore flannel shirts every day, so his friends nicknamed him paul bunyan. he planned to go to college and work in the arizona game and fish department so that he could protect the land and waters he loved so much. wyatt's life was animated by the belief that the blessings that he and his family enjoyed as americans came with an obligation to give back, an obligation to serve. so before he pursued his dream of being a good steward of the great outdoors, he enlisted in the army. and when he deployed to afghanistan as a comb

she said it's just like the first lieutenant who lost her life on the battlefield in afghanistan on a special operations nightvision. what rex so she said yes there was this lieutenant who is out there and she was on a night raid alongside ranger regiment at a lot of these guys and in special operations teams if you look at her obituary that who says she's a member of the north carolina national guard. but if you keep reading it tells you the story of what she's actually doing a night she died. she was part of a special operations team. i said how is that possible? the combat ban is still in progress urban afghanistan from the privilege of writing about "the dressmaker of khair khana" but i had never known that when rather was special operations teams. answer three questions popped into my mind. who are these people? what were they doing out there? and why as a country do it no idea that women were out there seem to can combat the less than 5% of the entire united states military sees while the combat ban was still officially in place? because they could come in you would know that a

so they wound up working together in afghanistan fixing broken ak-47s. and the reason they were not working on american weapons is the american guns weren't breaking as often often enough to keep their team busy so they were actually deployed to go help afghan national army, working on weapons that had been turned in from militia members in afghanistan and were being repurposed and given to the afghan national army. unusual to work on an ak-47 if you one an american weapons mechanic. while they were doing that, desma in the first deployment, had a desk job. she was keeping track of all the work that all the maintenance teams were doing and ordering spare parts for vehicle order ordering more night vision goggles. different work than when she was in iraq on the highways in her second deployment. but they come back from the first deployment, and even though all three have not seen what anybody would call combat, they have a moment where it's a struggle to transition back home. and i'll read from this point in the book, and part of what happens is that when

>> there is a strong hope in afghanistan. the outrage that we saw nationwide and globally on this case is providing a lot of inspiration and hope for people that they're awakening and they're realizing that this injustice is not fair, and there should be an end to it. but then it all defends very much on how the government of afghanistan and how it's international supporters are going to respond to this and watch this process being fair. >> thank you so much for sharing your views with us. we appreciate it. >>> now israel's prime minister has managed to form a new government. benjamin netanyahu has got the numbers to form a coalition with a series of right-wing parties. he had to make some serious compromises along the way. let's go to mike hannah, who is in jerusalem. what are some of those compromises? >> we learn that benjamin netanyahu has security the majority in the parliament. he now has up to a week to decide on the exact competition of his cabinet but he has a very slim majority despite all of these compromises, and

veterans of a fight to save afghanistan. afghanistan. sheila macvicar on why more isn't done to protect them >>> a sweet deal sinks, why florida lawmakers soured on a deal that could be key to saving the everglades. that's on aljazeera.com/americatonight. >>> in our fast-forward segment - viva los angeles, 41 million tourists pouring into sin city, many had cabs to services. then uber came in, and the competition is trying to slam on the breaks. >> reporter: not one now taxi company has opened in las vegas since 1991. if mr swarts has his way, uber will not. >> uber is unsafe. >> swarts owns three cab companies, 20% of the market share, and says uber doesn't have to comply with the same rules he must, involving things like car maintenance, background checks. uber likes to say that they are a technology company, rather than a transportation company. do you buy na? >> i don't guy that at all. they are a transportation company. they should comply with the same set of rules. uber came into the state and violated the law. >> reporter: uber is

i think the same is true in afghanistan. but i think that there is a sense that we might now not believe that there is enough political resolve to warrant future action. >> that's my curiosity here. because i wonder what is the trust level. did you have trust issues with the political leadership in the late 70s when you got into the military and do you think there will be a trust issue. you see that -- boy, everybody is walking away from this one and it was a politically -- it is a political decision. done by civilians. >> and, of course the military is involved. so nobody -- i think all the way back to korea, we have the habit of getting into wars and our goal is to get out of wars. the military can feel now wait a minute i don't want to go again unless this time there will be a level of resolve that is commensurate with the level of sacrifice taken. so i think it is going to have to be something that works through -- i think it will have to be trust built between the different parts of the government because young military

we probably spent too much in afghanistan. we spent too much money too fast with too small a country and with too little oversight. i think the president has said that. so they recognize that. and our job is to try to make it work better because we are going to be there a while. host: trying to audit, doing what you are trying to do, freedom of movement to cooperation with people, lack of it, you mentioned paperwork you can't find. paint a bigger picture if you could. guest: it's getting more difficult to get around because of the security situation. i remember when i started coming just three years ago, i could travel around most of the country. i could go to masar kandahar, my people, my agents actually traveled around in cars without having military escorts. we don't have anybody in in masar. so it's very difficult to get around. very difficult to get sources because we can't go out and talk to the afghans in many places outside the wire, outside the bases. they have to come in to see us. we get a lot of information from th

it is the first since our war in afghanistan came to an end.day 14 years that the united states is not engaged in a major ground war. on this day we honor the sacrifice of the thousands of american service members, men and women who gave their lights since 9/11, including 2200 patriots who gave their ultimate sacrifice in afghanistan. as an arizona kid wyeth love the outdoors. he started fishing when he was two years old. his dad says he was pretty good for a toddler. wyatt grew to six foot four inches and for a flannel shirt everyday, his friends nicknamed him hold on you. and to go to college and work in the arizona game and fish department so that he could contact the land and water he loved so much. wyatt's wife was animated by the blessings he and his family enjoys americans gave an obligation with that came with an obligation to give back. he enlisted in the army. when you deploy to afghanistan as a combat engineer, there was no doubt in his mind that he was doing the right ring. last summer, he told his sister if something happens to me,

about afghanistan? about iran? on the radio, and see on the television. do we read books or listen to people who really do know? host: do you think the members of congress have to come in with opinions already formed? that there is no time for them given to learn about these topics or change their opinion on a topic, if they do learn something? guest: now, to me, that is the home run question. the answer to me is that they do not come in with deep knowledge of a subject. they come in with politically accepted slogans. right now, for example, i read a story yesterday that many republicans running for the presidency right now are being pushed in the primary season toward a more extremist view that many of them do not even have they feel they have to adopt -- or adapt, rather. what i'm trying to explain is whether it is democrat or republican, we live in extremely complicated world, and we have to give ourselves more time to understand things, rather than just deal with slogans. host: the book is "haunting legacy, vie

this is because we know, afghanistan is under severe threat from drugs. >>> officials argue the courtconvincing him to give up the illegal trade. >>> but last year, afghanistan farmers harvested a record 24,000 hectors of open opium poppy. and this year looks like another bumper harvest and then, those like lttle john, this is the only photo of the kink pin. he was sentenced for 20 years and he managed to escape. >>> after his time in court people working for the kingpin paid 14-16 million dollars and that money secured his release and, he is nowhere to be found. >>> you talk about clean judges and clean courts and there are cases like lttle john. what happened there? >>> all those who were involved in the exploiting the processes are under investigation. >>> afghanistan's acting minister says lttle john is an isolated case. >>> i can assure the international community that the mistake that has been taken place, will not be repeated. >>> he stresses in the last eight years, they have put thousands behind bars. that may be so, but out in the fields few seem intimidated by the threat of

a judge in afghanistan sentences four men to death for the murder of a woman wrongly accused of burninghe quran. >>> we meet a nepalese man who made the difficult journey home after the earthquake. >>> and why one of the world's largest glaciers is retreating an at alarming rate. ♪ >>> at least 40 people have been killed in yemen as they tried to leave aden. the civilians were killed when houthi shells hit the boat they were traveling in. meanwhile houthi fighters are continuing to shell the saudi border town. three civilians were killed there on tuesday. the latest now from mohamed vall in the saudi capitol riyadh. >> reporter: reports talk about death of 40 civilians when they were trying to escape the fighting between houthis and the pro-hadi militia. they took a boat trying to reach a safer area but they were attacked on their way by the sea, and 40 were killed, ten were able to escape. in other parts of yemen air strikes continued. at least 30 air strikes, but they are concentrated in the north. and that came after the houthis were able for the first time to strike inside saudi ara

afghanistan. more than 2,300 u.s. soldiers have lost their lives over the past 14 years there. >>> before you head out to your memorial day observances and barbecues this evening, you can keep an eye on the holiday forecast with the nbc 10 app. we'll keep you up to the minute with weather alerts and with breaking news. >>> the holiday is, unfortunately, off to a violent start in philadelphia where police are investigating two deadly shootings from overnight. officers found a man shot in the head near a basketball court at 41st and aspen streets. the victim was taken to the hospital, but he did not survive. about 20 minutes earlier, somebody shot a man several times in the nicetown section of philadelphia. you could see shell casings on the street at 17th and luzerne. medics rushed the victim to the hospital, but he died. no arrests in this case either. >>> in camden investigators say someone shot a man in the chest at sheridan and norris street. there's no word on the age or condition of the victi

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we will be in afghanistan for nine more years.t's an agreement that obama signed with the new president of afghanistan. nine more years of life, limb and money. we have not even had a discussion on that. a nine-year agreement with a foreign country to have a troop presence and to help them rebuild their roads and streets when we cannot build our own roads and streets, spending billions of dollars every month that's why we are so frustrated. you hundred percent correct. -- you are 100% correct. host: is this different than the congress being involved in the iranian negotiations? guest: the president should have the latitude to have ongoing negotiations. we do have a role. once they complete this agreement, congress should have the ability to analyze the agreement on behalf of the american people. i do think that we need to have an ongoing negotiation. both parties have a right to see what the agreement is. guest: what walter and i are talking about are instances where we are putting american servicemen and women in harm's way, dire

in afghanistan, are we still at that point?uest: this president has tried to get out of afghanistan. what he has found is that you can desire from a political view in the united states that is the best course for the united states to get out of there, but, you get out, and you leave behind an enemy -- the taliban -- which is still there, still seeking somehow or another to overthrow the existing government to set up its own form of an islamic state. you know, i think about this, and i feel sorry for the president. these issues are monumental, and complicated. there is no easy thing. if the president of the united states today word to say to the american people -- get on camera, and say ims sending 250,000 american troops to afghanistan because we have had enough of the taliban, and we will wipe them out. what with the american people say? i have a feeling they would save no, they have had enough. likewise, if you were to say, we will send 250,000 troops to iraq. we couldn't do it once before, let's see if we can do it now. as w