host: michael hirsh? guest: well, of course the president is going to deny any parallels, and is perhaps a little overdrawn, but there are certain similarities. meli much worse, more people died, an entire unit involved, but it did come at a time when there was intense stress on american soldiers in the field, and above all, the lack of knowledge of who the enemy was and was not. one of the real problems we have the way forward in afghanistan right now is that the entire u.s. strategy relies on a handover of control of security to afghan forces we were training. in the aftermath of these incidents, u.s. soldiers have been getting killed right of to what happened a couple of weeks ago when two -- two officers were is shot dead inside the interior ministry in kabul. you have this sense of who we can rely on and who we contrast, and if we do not have that as a sense of reliability in the afghan government, in the afghan military forces that we are training, then the whole u.s. strategy goes out the window. >

we'll go to michael hirsh. he wrote this piece for the national journal and the atlantic. ve a slightly different theory than me. michael, talk about that. >> i think this is mainly paul ryan's audition for the 2016 g.o.p. presidential nomination. in the sense that the tea party continues to have an iron grip on the ideology of the republican party. i don't disagree with your analysis in terms of the inequity of the plan, but let me add a couple of numbers in addition to that. this plan would effectively eliminate almost all of government besides social security, medicaid medicare, insurance for children and interest payments. even with those programs reduced, what it calls for is essentially everything else in government being cut to 3- 3.75%. you would eliminate all of american government apart from defense and those programs i just mentioned. education spending, research, highways, all the things that we've grown used to in terms of the government investing in america's future would go under this plan. this is very much the tea party agenda. >> whether this is the tea pa

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