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there is a piece by gid i don't know rose what would nixon do. a look at lessons. henry kissing er wrote saying te and less more on exit on strategy. my question is based on the lessons from vietnam and other past u.s. military involvement, what are the options for afghanistan and what lessons could be applied from the past moving ahead? right. it is a critical question. and in truth i have written about it for two years and it is like banging my head against the wall. as i was listening to your caller i realized people don't really understand that we are committed to keeping the bulk of our troops in afghanistan until the beginning of 2015. that is more than three more years. that is our nato pledge. even after that we will probably have 15,000 to 20,000 troops there. it is that long-range commitment that needs to be adjusted. how do you adjust it? you have to have a withdrawal plan that i think speeds up the process as part of it. but you do need a strategy in the same way nixon and kissinger had a strategy to kind of cover our exit from afghanistan with other as

lee: it fore gids armed forces from engaging in foreign lands more than 60 days without congressional authorization or without military force or without a declaration of war. we've been actively fighting for 77 days. this is not just about our mission in libya. and let me just say, i think our president, who has done a commendable job in handling the very complex range of foreign policy issues, but this is about any president, any administration. it's not about that. it's about standing up for congressional power granted in the constitution. and as our ranking member said, the kucinich amendment is the amendment that addresses this head on in a very honest and direct way. so we should reject this politically motivated resolution. it's a resolution that has just come up. we ask again the speaker and majority leader on march 30 to conduct a debate and an up or down vote. and we conclude in our letter that it's our position that the president has a constitutional obligation to seek specific statutory authority for offensive military action as he should have done with regard to u.s. milit

there is a piece by gid i don't know rose what would nixon do. a look at lessons. henry kissing er wrote saying te and less more on exit on strategy. my question is based on the lessons from vietnam and other past u.s. military involvement, what are the options for afghanistan and what lessons could be applied from the past moving ahead? right. it is a critical question. and in truth i have written about it for two years and it is like banging my head against the wall. as i was listening to your caller i realized people don't really understand that we are committed to keeping the bulk of our troops in afghanistan until the beginning of 2015. that is more than three more years. that is our nato pledge. even after that we will probably have 15,000 to 20,000 troops there. it is that long-range commitment that needs to be adjusted. how do you adjust it? you have to have a withdrawal plan that i think speeds up the process as part of it. but you do need a strategy in the same way nixon and kissinger had a strategy to kind of cover our exit from afghanistan with other as

lee: it fore gids armed forces from engaging in foreign lands more than 60 ds without congressional authorization or without military force or without a declaration of war. we've been actively fighting for 77 days. this is not just about our mission in libya. and let me just say, i think our president, who has done a commendable job in handling the very complex range of foreign policy issues, but this is about any president, any administration. it's not about that. it's about standing up for congressional power granted in the constituti. and as our ranking member said, the kucinich amendment is the amendment that addresses this head on in a very honest and direct way. so we should reject this politically motivated resolution. it's a resolution that has just come up. we ask again the speaker and majority leader on march 30 to conduca debate and an up or down vote. and we conclude in our letter that it's our position that the president has a constitutional obligation to seek specific statutory authority for offensive military action as he should have done with regard to u.s. military engagement in