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if you reduced it to a bumper sticker it would say: no more wars like iraq and afghanistan. >> as we look beyond the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the end of long-term nation building with large military footprints we'll be able to ensuring our security with smaller conventional ground forces. >> reporter: the president and his advisors held up libya, with where the u.s. committed air and naval power but no land forces, as a model for future wars. and joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey cited the pacific as the future theater of competition if not conflict. >> all of the trends-- demographic trends, geopolitical trends, economic trends and military trends-- are shifting toward the pacific. >> reporter: dempsey is talking about the rise of china. that and the hard-earned lesson that the u.s. could not afford to fight two wars simultaneously in iraq and afghanistan are perhaps the biggest game changers of the past decade. you could say the new strategy is finally catching up with the real world according to defense secretary panetta, it adds up to a smaller army and marine corps and

if you reduce it to a bumper sticker, it would say no more wars like iraq and afghanistan. >> as we look beyond the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the end of long-term nation building with large military footprints, we will be able to ensure our security with smaller conventional ground forces. >> reporter: the president and his advisers held up libya where the u.s. committed air and naval power but no land forces as a model for future wars. and joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey cited the pacific as the future theater of competition, if not conflict. >> all of the trends, demographic trends, geo political trends, economic trends and military trends are shifting toward the pacific. >> reporter: dempsey is talking about the rise of china. that and the hard earned lesson the u.s. could not afford to fight two wars simultaneously in iraq and afghanistan are perhaps the biggest game-changers of the past decade. you could saythe new strategy is finally catching up with the real world according to defense secretary rah net -- panetta, it adds up to a smaller army and marine corps and more

get things done.i and in a culture like iraq that is the opposite of beingo effective you have tot's sit down for hours and hours.ro patriquin was a master to drink potions ofpa tea, cigarettes, hold hands hands, you may and gas. talk about chicago high school and maybe in a couple of weeks people feel comfortable to get things done. the military learned that but it comes down to america projecting themselves properly. that is one of patriquin scraped assets. >> his love of thingsr arabic , did you always have an interest in the arab world? patriquin was an oddball in a positive way.yi he was sort of stocky did none this to many meals the republican in the beinge special forces support soldier. he is not a marshmallow by any means but the endless fascination here love to mythology and some of theyou roadbed is very heroic and he saw a source of endless fascination he had the q'uaran there is a pitcher in my book and sector run he picked up in jordan did insist on finding one tot study the awful accurate picture not what somebody pic sevens in in the merrell an excerpt from and not to

for all intents and purposes the afghan war is essentially over it's on the glide path down it's like iraq two thousand and eight two thousand and nine what's going to happen after we leave or after we draw down to a lower presence my guess is just sort of some sort of low level civil war that's going to continue on and it's not going to be we're not going to be able to see too much of a difference i wouldn't think. that being said i think you have a situation where as long as the characters as long as american soldiers aren't getting killed then most then we can constantly are doing our fighting for us than these kinds of wars are. in your mind and might be right if drones or the afghan army are sort of different proxy forces we have if they're the ones dying then then we have an american public issue and they have very high tolerance to allow. is set to go on for a long time and so what's replaced point i mean is that you know the forget about troops on the ground let's do you know electronic while it's going to be the phrase does your is the c t plus it was vice presidents biden biden's

but when it comes to issues like iraq, incredibly important that the world's number one military power, number one economic power, has a proper debate about whether they could go into these things without people being labeled a pacifist if it's not a good idea. >> that's just one of the pushbacks and i'm not brave enough to be a pacifist. i am like millions of other americans, very, very concerned about our foreign policy. behavior. over the past several years. and the way that our the bedrock of this nation has been chipped away by the people who democracy, democracy, and their turning their back on the bill of rights. we have people in cages with no habieus, no red cross. yeah, this is not the country that my parents raised me to pledge my allegiance to. you can't say you're a proud american and then water board somebody. you can't say you're a proud american and assassinate an american citizen in another country. those are mutually exclusive ideas. >> ron paul, i interviewed him yesterday. it's interesting you say this. his big thing, it's an impressive thing to say is he supports t

iraq are you from? are you from the north or the south? and patriquin would say something like, no, i'm from chicago. i'm an american. and they, many iraqis were befuddled by that because they thought he might be an iraqi who had left iraq as a child, gone over here and grown up and then came back with a funny midwestern accent. and, um, they met and quickly became very close allies in this struggle. he was, patriquin was a junior officer. he was only 32 at the time, and his commanding officers, lieutenant colonel -- [inaudible] in fact, patriquin moved into the sheikh's house basically for three months at the end of all this. that became his headquarters. and they let patriquin sort of run with this relationship. this was very difficult at the time because their bosses, their u.s. military bosses -- some of them -- were saying don't deal l with this sheikh. he's a killer. find somebody without blood on their hands, and patriquin and his colleagues would say, what, are you crazy? there's nobody without blood on their hands this iraq, we have to deal with the people who are here. hundreds of young iraq

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. >>> men and women who search out and destroy roadside bombs in places like iraq and afghanistan will keep doing what they do despite the incal kabul dang he. today 4 heroes injured by the ied they were trying to disarm were honored at travis air force base. here's wayne. >> they are the kinds of injuries that tech sergeant might describe to his daughter later. much later. >> for me l brain injury in the last year i lost skin on the left side of my face. left ar arm. flag. rock sand embedded in my skin. >> staff saivrmingt i got knocked out. lost all hearing in my left ear. >>reporter: sound like a pattern. staff sergeant pwrichbility the neck i got cracked vertebra. kind of get misaligned so they fused 2 vertebra together to keep it in line. >>reporter: this smraints overflow crowd at traivs air force base today. every man woman here to see the oldest military honor purple heart. >> the one award i think nobody wants. you know. you have to get hurt or you have to die. >> we are honoring heroes heroes that have zacchary faced themselves. >>reporter: not in a way you might expect for a

coming from the left that had been so critical of president bush for being too unilateral in marries like iraq and other issues. now they want to see president obama act without regard to congress's preferences. there is no question that there is a ground swell of support from the left, particularly for where the president made these appointments. it wasn't just random jobs. it was a consumer finance protection bureau he filled. the directorship of that and three positions at the national labor relations board. both areas where liberals had been seeing this deliver. >> this seemed into the race for 2012. mitt romney criticizing the president's actions saying compareing it to chicago-style politics and they are saying by opposing this, this puts mitt romney beside lenders and republicans in congress who are not on the sides of the middle class. our team just said this was a fight that the president in the white house really wants at this time. >> sure. i think it's no accident that they did this right after the results of the first republican presidential primary and you see even some republica

but when it comes to a war like iraq, the worlds's number one political power, number one economic power go into a debate, go into one of these things without people being labeled a passivist. >> i'm not brave enough to be a passivist. i am like millions of other americans very, very concerned about our foreign policy behavior over the past several years. and the way that our -- the bedrock of this nation has been chipped away by the people who -- democracy, democracy, and they're turning their back on the bill of rights. we have people in cages with no habeas, no phone calls, no red cross. >> guantanamo you mean. >> yeah. this is not the country that my parents raised me to pledge my allegiance to. you know. you can't say you're a proud american and then waterboard somebody. you can't say you're a proud american and assassinate an american citizen in another country. those are mutually exclusive ideas. >> ron paul, i interviewed him yesterday. it's interesting you say this because his big thing and it's an impressive thing to say is he supports the constitution. >> i'm telling you -- >>

no longer able to fight two sustained ground wars like iraq and afghanistan, but certainly able to respondresponds quickly to threats ranging from iran to smaller scale terror threats. the pentagon says that it is going to be looking toward these future threats and retooling the fighting force from the machinery on down to the boats on the ground to deal with those modern threats. but there is another sort of threat right here on capitol hill. if congress cannot come to terms on the broader budget cuts that it's been rang ling with for the last six months or so, e those cuts that were supposed to have been made by the supercommittee, another $500 billion in automatic cuts kick in. secretary of defense leo leon pantetta says the defense cannot handle that. the hope here is the men and women on capitol hill can protect the men and women in uniform by finding the cuts. >> and the story continues, thank you very mump. >> it's 6:43. san francisco police end a stakeout without getting their man. >>> plus mild good news about the economy. mildly. we'll take a look coming up. now, that's progressi

you ever imagine in your wildest nightmares you would one day be on the front line of somewhere like iraqt to basic training, and then was shipped off to iraq in 2003. so never at that point, and i really wasn't into my army career long enough to even fully comprehend that that was a possibility, let alone to become a prisoner of war. >> well, you ended up with a bronze star and a purple heart. and a limp, right? how is that coming along? >> good. good, i mean, the medals, i honestly, i felt bad, i didn't want to accept them, but i knew with the p.o.w. medal, obviously, i was a prisoner of war, so i did accept that. the purple heart, every soldier who is over there who is wounded and in action receives the purple heart. and then the bronze star, or bronze medal. >> how are you doing physically? >> i have had 21 surgeies ovthe past eight years to correct all this, the bends and i still have a brace on my foot that i still have to wear. >> you came out here quite sprightly. has it been getting better for you? >> it has, because i make it mentally. honestly, probably things are deteriorating

this happens in young people and movements like in iraq that are against the war.se are real people that are organizing within their communities and that is what it is really about is empowerment. >> i met martha, i know that she was from the community and she had the home in public housing. one day she said that she was tired and willing to do whatever it takes to house the children. we decided that we're going to put forth the effort to reclaim the foreclosed properties. >> we fought back and we fought to retrieve this because a lot of people out there don't have a place to stay and are homeless. the people that i work with feel like that is their right. they should not feel like th have to sleep on benches or sidewalks. there were people that had reasons like they lost their jobs, they could not make their ends meet. >> at this moment, i have a lot of people that are calling. they are looking to open up these foreclosed buildings. no one is living in them. make them better and put people in them. >> there will be more land liberation going on throughout the unit

effective, some in the army say, but it would also mean we could no longer handle two simultaneous wars like iraqnd afghanistan with that type of scaledown. special operations, not supposed to be affected by this. but some in the military say it could reduce stress on our troops. expect pushback from members of congress who of course represent those districts where the army bases are located. not only might some of them get smaller but units may be shifted around, moved around the country. that could have a big impact on the local economy. so, not everyone here on capitol hill may go for this. it's expected to happen over about ten year, he's going to announce more details today essentially try to start with those who plan to leave the military, medical and other reasons, but inevitably there will be some denied re-enlistment as they start this scaledown. >> thank you, tracie. >> 5:44. new polls are giving president obama a boost during his west coast trip. an nbc poll shows for the first time in six months more people approve than disapprove of his presidency and 37% of americans have a more opt

the cost of crude oil is affected by international events like political unrest in countries like iraqhere'ssthe added worry of a soon be asked to consider a 15-cent per gallon increase over the next couple years.if prices rise to above 4 dollars.... some drivers say they'll be forced to park their rides...maybe pprmanently. <"luckily i'm really close... will be using them mor> more."> just the speculation of events overseas... could impact the cost of crude oil... as investors get worried.a spokesperson for triple-a says ... they ádoá expect prices to rise in 2012. but it remains unclear... how much. find the lowest prices in your neighborhood...go to fox baltimore dot coo... slash pump patrol. and if the gas tax increasee challenged because it's an appropriations bill.that's why "americans for prosperity"... started a petition drive....so marylanders can let their lawmakers know what they think of the proposed gas tax hike. see the petition at fox baltimore dot com... and look for "stop the gasstax" .. under hot topics. 3 3 gov romney received.... santorum received.. congreats romney

if we cut our ties with afghanistan like we did in iraq, all we fought for could be lost and the next thing you know, radicalism takes over in afghanistan, the taliban come back in parts of the country, and that's terrible. we would -- >> jenna: we can't judge history at this point, we have no idea what is going to happen over the next decade and that's certainly a point well taken. i want to shift quickly to iran, because when we talk about this iran we can't talk about it without iran. >> absolutely. jenna: we have the peace talks potentially happening next week and also reports the administration is looking to talk with iran as well. you issued as arelution to rule out containments of a nuclear-armed iran. quickly, sir, can you tell us exactly the hour of the senate can do when it comes to this very important foreign policy? >> what i'm trying to do with senator lieberman is to get every united states senator on the record as to whether or not, as a body, we believe you can contain a nuclear-armed iran. i believe that is a failed strategy, that if iran gets a nuclear weapon, the su

iraq, like egypt and other countries undergoing dramatic changes, faces immense challenges in the years ahead. we met an iraqi american who spent much of her life in war zones who firmly believes the key to lasting peace is in the hands of women >> i grew up in war, and i grew up in not only a war but a-- iraq was led by saddam hussein. so it was fear and terror. >> reporter: zanea's father was saddam hussein's personal pilot. her family's ever move controlled by his iron hand. >> the fear-- i wish i can can explain that fear. it was like a poison gas leaked into our home and we all breathed it slowly. i was about 10 years old when the iran-iraq war started. and at a very young age i learned there is this other side of war that sort of no one talks about, and that is what women go through and what women live in war. and it was the women who ran the schools. it was the women who ran the factories. and it's women who keep life going in the midst war. >> mitchell: you're saying it's a story that is not told, generally speaking. >> it is not told and we are impacted by that when it comes to