let me bring in my panel, jim miklaszewski, jack jacobs and atia aboui joins me from afghanistan. jack, when we are talking about how the strategy has made gains, is it clear to you that in the last year or two the changes we've made in strategy are more effective than what we saw in the periods after 9/11 until the big change? >> there is no doubt about that. we ignored afghanistan for a long time while we went to iraq and as a result all the gains that were made initially, particularly by the northern alliance in getting rid of the taliban, they were all lost because we didn't follow up success with more success. second, and secretary clinton re-emphasized this, it is not just a military operation. we have to stop relying on the military as the default instrument of foreign policy. you have to include people who are going to help build afghanistan, diplomats there, people there the agriculture department and so on. and i think that we have made gains in afghanistan because we include people other than the military to get things going. >> jim, from the pentagon perspective, they

atia is live in afghanistan. you're there on the ground, and as we watch the progress here in the united states and we see the comments coming in after the review by the president and his te team. what is the feeling about the progress one year ago to today? >> reporter: richard, that's an interesting question. and the answer is going to change from district to district. kandahar was the primary focus in 2010 by the commanders on the ground, by washington itself. back in the summer of 2010 there were massive bloody fire fights going on day by day in kandahar province. there's still violence there. we're still seeing roadside bombs. last week we saw six american soldiers killed by a suicide attack. but it should be noted that the violence has decreased somewhat. the city of kandahar, a place that i was afraid to go to last year. when i landed there it was probably one of the scariest cities in afghanistan. today the city of kandahar has some sort of security bubble around it by the nato and afghan forces, but when

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