joshua hersh wrote a great piece and he is live in kabul right now.orning, josh. >> hi, how are you. >> good morning. >> good morning. thank so much for coming on this morning. >> my pleasure. >> the president's speech was very well received among the afghan people. >> yeah kabul functions in a different state than the rest of afghanistan. the taliban did not react that well, but they had a surprising level of warm feelings to the fact that the president came and showed himself even though it was the middle of the night and established a partnership to stay here in afghanistan. >> this is ryan parker. >> this is a long war, and it requires long-term commitment. >> josh, obviously all polling shows the american people have grown weary of this war as well as iraq. do you feel like this was partially a political calculation, so he wasn't going to get this complaint that if you signal a date certain to the taliban that they are just going to wait it out. >> yes, there is a lot of mixed messaging coming from the white house i think in part to make everyone

com and on twitter, you can follow him at joshua hersh.so a year and a half from now, what are the expectations we should have for the government of hamid karzai to be able to run that country? i mean it seems today he can't even run kabul. will he have national support and a national unified government? >> you're asking basically the fundamental question that everyone wants to know. i mean there is going to be an election in 2014 also. another piece to the puzzle here. karzai has said that he's not planning to run. he's not planning to be part of that new presidential team so on some level, you know it will be a whole different administration in afghanistan dealing with it. but what sort of institutions have been built and is it still going to be sort of a karzai-supported follower or will it be someone completely different, there are major questions about what will happen here. huge questions. the americans, their rhetoric is very optimistic. optimistic enough that you have to wonder where it falls in terms of reality readying the troops

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