hamid karzai says, take a lighter footprint. stay on your base.p dropping so many bombs indiscriminately. we're not going to win hearts and minds that we a are fighting this war. the americans go about it their way. and thousands and thousands of afghan civilians died, tens of thousands of security forces died. war is a stalemate. the cia draws of these maps every six months with a color the district's of afghanistan to say whether the government controls and or the taliban controls it wewere it is contested. over the course of a decade, despite the presencece of 150,00 first-rate international combat inops fighting the taliban afghanistan, the colors essentially do not change. they're not much different today. if anything, the telegram have probably come back a little in the countryside. there are reasons why the war is a stalemate from the military perspective. since,a bigger picture it i is a grinding price e that afghan c civilians are paying fr this. look, the afghans have been brought together in a kind of nationalist way by pakistan's inter

hamid karzai. third is the illusion of the counterinsurgency war in afghanistan and for this the failure of american diplomatic and political strategy in the war. a lot of the sections delete code sanctions took place in the eisenhower executive office building next to the west wing and the narrative keeps going back to that room. they are remarkable all-day sessions with the representation often in the morning intelligence agencies would come in and the analysts wil would to brief the facts of what the template and controls it with the government controls, here's a democracy of the war and the estimates about the men under arms and usually they would leave the room and policy makers would debate what do we do now and it was remarkable to go back and excavate the best i could without access to all the notes and records and substantial access to what was discussed and written. it's sending young american men and women to think through what are the vital interests that justify the sacrifices and in a