, was karzai our candidate? was he not? and the 2009 presidential and parliamentary elections were really not the model of what we would hope and one of the things this we say in this piece is it is very important that the presidential election in 2014 and the parliamentary election in 2015 be very different. be very inclusive, broad participation, free and fair, so that the governments that come out of those elections are legitimate and have more support among the american people. >> rose: wasn't there some aspiration for that in 2009? >> there was aspiration, but not enough preparation and implementation and one of the things we say in this report, very strongly is, there are things we need to do to ensure a free and fair election in 2014, 2015 and we need to start them now, we need to solve this issue about voter less, which are not in good shape we need to establish now the afghans need to establish now [voter lists] the electoral institutions, the election complaint commission, the election commission will

, was karzai our candidate? was he not? and the 2009 presidential and parliamentary elections were really not the model of what we would hope and one of the things this we say in this piece is it is very important that the presidential election in 2014 and the parliamentary election in 2015 be very different. be very inclusive, broad participation, free and fair, so that the governments that come out of those elections are legitimate and have more support among the american people. >> rose: wasn't there some aspiration for that in 2009? >> there was aspiration, but not enough preparation and implementation and one of the things we say in this report, very strongly is, there are things we need to do to ensure a free and fair election in 2014, 2015 and we need to start them now, we need to solve this issue about voter less, which are not in good shape we need to establish now the afghans need to establish now [voter lists] the electoral institutions, the election complaint commission, the election commission will

i don't want to see you well president karzai is a stooge of the pakistanis all right he is their boy in afghanistan and by the way our state department. just kisses up the pakistanis and has been doing so for the last thirty years which is one of the major reasons we've had problems down there but isn't it that one of the major reasons that that the us needs to do that is to keep the borders open to be able to get you know the flow of goods to afghanistan where the troops you know my wife who wants to be in afghanistan i mean why should anybody the russians should understand how that that is a rotten place for people to station their foreign troops. and they're not going to make any friends and the afghans traditionally when they open their eyes and they see foreign troop. around them they say i don't like them and i don't want them here in my country and. what we've got is afghanistan has been manipulated policy has been really really manipulated by pakistan and i think that my recognition that the government this was a stablished after nine eleven and afghanistan does not reflect.

so for public consumption so the united states people can be fed the line that the taliban and karzai administration are in peace negotiations and the reason they will say that is because we are talking about a deal. not because it is true. >>guest: we are fighting with a different group of people in pakistan. it has nothing to do with these old farts. they have nothing to do with the war in afghanistan. this is just a little puppet group of people to make it look like we kissed and made up and we can go home. >>shepard: it is all a big show? >>guest: yes. >>shepard: a big show withing in to it. >>guest: but it does not erase bergdahl's family concern. the eye on the ball is get bergdahl home. >>shepard: at one point you were in the middle of getting him home at one point, right? >>guest: well, when he was first kidnapped i was contacted by forces in afghanistan. we tracked him from the time he was kidnapped. he hung out with the afghan guards and he was turned over to a group that flipped it to another group based in pakistan, the same people that kidnapped david rose from "new york

specifically with ikeen berg i are, karzai and general petraeus.ou mention there was a lack of a con deuce working relationship between karzai and okayen berry. general petraeus made the executive decision to do one on one meeting without karzai. you mention petraeus' stress on the importance of civilian military partnership i'm wondering about your reflection as to how thaw came in to play was that the right call? the overall picture of that. >> well, i think one of the thing he learned in his education in iraq was how critical it is to have unity of effort with the civilian side because you can't kill your way out of insurgency. it needs to be a comprehensive civil mill fair plan idea a role of government effort. the surge of security forces arrived in afghanistan but we never did see a surge of civilian forces. i think that was frustrating him to him. he found innovative ways to work around it. that's one of the things i like to frame in the book is that really it's a study in strategic leadership. how to get down when you have a troop cap. if y

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they are achieving. >> my question is about personal relationships specifically with eikenberry, karzai and general petraeus. you mentioned there was a lack of conducive working relationship between cars at and eikenberry so he made the executive decision to do one-on-one meetings about karzai and you also mentioned he stressed the importance of civilian military partnership. i'm just wondering about your reflection how that can and to play. was that the right call the overall picture of that? >> one of the things he learned in his education in iraq is just how critical it is to have unity of effort with the civilian side because you can't tell your way of an insurgency. it means to be a comprehensive military plan that i believe the whole of government effort. the surge of security forces arrived but we never did see the surge of civilian force is slash was pretty frustrating to him, but he found innovative ways to worker down that. one way i'd like to frame the book is that it is a study and strategic leadership how to get it done when you have the troup caps. if you want the local af

i'll will reaching out to president karzai as well. we have to make sure we're on top of this. >> president obama was asked about the remarks over the weekend by congressman todd akin in missouri who has ignited the political fire storm about his comments on abortion. he was asked if he opposes abortion in the case of rape. >> people want to make that as one of those things how do you slice this particularly sort of ethical question. it seems to me, first of all, from what i understand from doctors that's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape the female body has ways to shut that thing down, but let's assume maybe that didn't work. i think there should be some punishment but the punishment ought to be in the rapist but not attacking the child. >> those comments we just played have echoed across the political spectrum and not long before the congressman spoke there congress akin went on radio show to try to explain what he meant. >> i care deeply for the victims of people who have been raped. they are equally vulnerable and a rain is e

and at that point karzai, you know, maybe i just wanted to hear some thing different in his voice. i thought he went off script there and that there was genuine emotion and he said yes, we really need him back here. and then came the next call. >> rose: so there had been lots of tension between the two of them. >> of course who doesn't have tension with president karzai. but that's another conversation. but then came the call from the pakistani president who zardari who was a human being. he said kati, i told him he was overdoing it i said richard i marks friend, you have to stop flying to all of these terrible places and crawling in your body inside these tents in the refugee coverall of whom richard who was no young stef was doing. and he said, then he came over for the memorial service. and he came to see me in my motel room. and he said you know kati, you have to let the grief, you have to feel the grief. and after benazir, his wife benazir bhutto who was assassinated, after her death, i have not moved anything of hers. everything is as she left it you know what, charlie that i

if united states and karzai government officially request u.n.establish that kind of office in dubai, maybe japan can support u.n. office financially also diplomatically. and i think this could be the key step for future afghan election process. >> that was daisuka higashi, an expert on security issues and assistant professor at the university of tokyo. >>> policymakers at japan's central bank have unanimously decided to maybe maintain the current monetary policy of supplying a huge amount of noun the financial markets. bank of japan officials said on thursday that the country's economy has started picking up moderately. they say domestic demand remains firm due to rebuilding efforts in the areas hit by the march 11th disaster. corporate capital investment is increasing, and consumption is strong. partly due to government subsidies for buyers of eco-friendly cars. meanwhile, on overseas economies, the policymakers said uncertainties remain amid the ongoing european debt crisis. looking ahead, the central bank maintained its economic outlook. that

east, those in afghanistan have been increasing the pressure, including on the government of hamid karzai. >> while the position of afghan women has improved since the fall of the taliban, there have been recent setbacks under his administration as well women are legally allowed to drive but encouraged not to do so. >> in this special report, we look at one woman who is trying to change that by teaching others how to navigate the roads of the capital kabul. >> it is a big day for 21-year- old fareshta. she's taking her first driving lesson. she will be under the watchful eye of the only female driving instructor in the entire afghan capital. they run through the basics. ignition, hand brake, a clutch. all the while, men look on with disbelief. although women are now allowed to drive by in afghanistan, seeing a woman behind the wheel is still a novelty in kabul. 21-year-old fareshka keeps her eyes focused on the road. the instructor coaches are nervous people with a helping hand. she also tells her to take it easy on the gas pedal. >> women have only been allowed to drive in afghanistan si

karzai to prevent such attacks. general is back in the air on a replacement plane. back to you. >> gretchen: thank you very much. this comes after a series of attacks after the afghan sold yerse. the americans had given them ghuns. you never hear a lot. >> brian: the president never comes out and expresses outrage or calls a press conference or calls out karzai for allowing it to happen or where is his apology to the troops six killed in 24 hours and 40 killed this year. it is prediable. we told them we are leave they have a survival gene. they picked up and left in a matter of week in iraq. how will we survive after the u.s. leaves. that is a lot to do with what we are seeing now. >> steve: how many times people in the military said you can't put a time table out there and can't tell them when you are going to why is it happening right now? the taliban may be infiltrating the military and the afghans simply don't like us. ralph peters was on with bill o'reilly and he had these observations. >> these assassinations

officials also have to contend with new turmoil within the government of president hamid karzai. this month, parliament voted no- confidence in two top officials, interior minister bismillah khan mohammadi and defense minister abdul rahim wardak, who resigned last week. finance minister omar zakhilwal is also being investigated on charges of corruption. for more we turn to the "washington post" bureau chief in kabul. kevin, welcome. thanks for joining us. let's start with today's suicide attacks. what are u.s. officials, military commanders on the ground telling you about, one, are they related and, two, who they think is behind them? >> as far as we know at this point, they're unrelated attacks, although most officials will tell you that they were both executed by the insurgents. we don't know which arm of the unsurge ensy. no one at this point is taking credit for the attacks but the one in the south is by far at this point the most deadly. >> warner: how concernedded are they about this uptick in attacks? i think we reported up 11% in the second quarter this year over last yea

is more likely to be able to wield some influence in afghanistan with with karzai than with the taliban so they're willing to perfectly willing to bolster the taliban going forward in order to get get rid of indian influence but i just want to point out pete because it's funny that in two thousand and twelve here we can we can talk about nato without referencing what it's all about why it why we still have this organization i mean the stated purpose is after the first second world war was to protect against encroaching soviet communism but it's clear that that was not the case and it's not the case now i mean the soviet communism is dead and every u.s. administer u.s. every u.s. administration since the fall of the soviet union has expanded nato so of course it couldn't be the case there was a document in one thousand nine hundred two that excuse me just let me finish this document nine hundred ninety two that circulated around the defense department became known as the the wolfowitz. doctrine and it described what had been american policy going back to the truman. administration which

congressman dana rohrabacher who gave us his view on the difficulties that president karzai continues to face. the government that this was a stablished after nine eleven and afghanistan does not reflect. the values of the afghan people themselves and so it's a totally different structure it's a centralized system where afghans demand more centralized authority in their village and tribal leaders and karzai of course has no basis support so as i'm pointing those things out and the fact that he's so tied into the pakistanis. as i don't want me around so he exercised his prerogative. and you can watch that and if you in about an hour and ten minutes from now here are not for the time being though and let's get to the will start in america where i have identified the man who shot dead six worshippers at a sikh temple in the u.s. state of the sconce and the man's name wade michael page it was also revealed the forty year old who was killed in a shootout with police was an army veteran page who was said to have held a radical white supremacist views and at the temple on sunday morning and

congressman dana rohrabacher who gave us his views on the difficulties that president karzai is facing fanaa a quick preview of that discussion. this was a stablished after nine eleven and afghanistan does not reflect. the values of the afghan people themselves and so it's a totally different structure it's a centralized system where afghans demand more centralized authority in their village and tribal leaders and karzai corps has no base of support so as i'm pointing those things out and the fact that he's so tied into the pakistanis. cars i don't want me around so he exercised his prerogative. or you can watch on that in an interview in its entirety later this hour here on r.t. for now though straight to the we go some of the global news for you in brief and we'll start with egypt now where israel has reportedly found the bodies of eight gunmen captured in an attack on a security checkpoint on the border with egypt the assault had left at least sixteen in god's killed and eight injured both sides blaming the militants for the attack since early last year and is the most belonging to