thank you, david patraeus. [applause] >> i want to thank all of you outstanding leaders including general john campbell, admiral bill mccraven from the 455th air expeditionary. colonel todd canterbury. your great senior enlisted leaders including scott shroed er -- somewhat roader. chris faris, and command chief craig adams. i also want to acknowledge the outstanding work that our civilians are doing each and every day, starting with carl eikenberry, all the way through to your senior civilian representative thomas givens and all the civilians who are here. they are fighting alongside you and putting themselves at risk. they are away from their families and we are very, very grateful to them as well. so, give them a big round of applause. i think we have every service here tonight. we have army. >> whew! >> we have navy. >> yeah! >> we have air force. >> yeah! >> i think we have a few marines around, too. >> whew! >> and a lot of folks from the 101st airborne division, the screaming eagles. we are here in afgha

dawn dark where the people are going to see the military tragedy is not working, that as general patraeus's manual says it is 80% politics. holbrooke understood that from the beginning and i think the tragedy of this for america and afghanistan is that the era of holbrooke was about to dawn with the hour of a negotiated settlement. >> that is interesting because you can see how by force of personality in the balkans he had his impact. what you are suggesting here you couldn't do it the same way? >> no. but i always said to him you will come into your own in that final stretch when we've got the leaders of the regional powers, leaders of the afghan factions around a table. and we need holbrooke's mixture of charm and cussedness to get people to hammer out an agreement. he was not so good at the niceties of diplomacy. he was good at cutting to the chase of an issue and this very strong compassionate side to him. >> richard holbrooke deadline at the aim of 69. the prime minister of italy faces possibly the most testing vote of confidence in parliament. we go there because they have been debati

guest: i was just in afghanistan and spoke with everyone from general patraeus just to regular afghans on the street. one thing that everyone can agree on is that the current strategy has -- to borrow general patraeus his words, to devote a keyless heels. one is that we have -- two achilles' heels. we have an afghan government that is able to effectively cover the people and not act in a predatory way in other sections of afghanistan. they have to do their homework because i cannot determine the degree to which these sanctuaries in pakistan are having an effect on our operations in afghanistan. but as a social scientist commodified backup and look at the broad civil wars and a insurgencies over time, it is very difficult to be successful in this type of counterinsurgency campaign if you have a across borders like we do with afghanistan and pakistan. i do not think we have a strategy within the u.s. government and within nato to do something about these sanctuaries in pakistan. pakistan is have been unwilling to go after -- pakistanis have been willing to go after the islamabad and othe

guest: i was just in afghanistan and spoke with everyone from general patraeus just to regular afghans on the street. one thing that everyone can agree on is that the current strategy has -- to borrow general patraeus his words, to devote a keyless heels. one is that we have -- two achilles' heels. we have an afghan government that is able to effectively cover the people and not act in a predatory way in other sections of afghanistan. they have to do their homework because i cannot determine the degree to which these sanctuaries in pakistan are having an effect on our operations in afghanistan. but as a social scientist commodified backup and look at the broad civil wars and a insurgencies over time, it is very difficult to be successful in this type of counterinsurgency campaign if you have a across borders like we do with afghanistan and pakistan. i do not think we have a strategy within the u.s. government and within nato to do something about these sanctuaries in pakistan. pakistan is have been unwilling to go after -- pakistanis have been willing to go after the islamabad and othe

without him there, they'll revert to the state bureaucracy and i think -- on one hand general patraeusas become the point man with president karzai in the past few months any way and i think that role will continue to grow with the loss of ambassador holbrooke. he had strained relations with president karzai. so people had begun to question how effective he was a special representative any way. but certainly in terms of his ability to get around interagency battles and implement refors on the -- reforms on the ground, that will be missed. >> thank you for coming in jeff. we appreciate it. >> sure. >>> it is 22 degrees at 7:39. coming up next, we'll meet the nationals $126 million man. jayson werth talks about his plans to bring a winning baseball team to the area. >>> and should donovan mcnabb worry about his job safety. we're hearing rumors his backup is getting more reps these days. that's coming up.  >>> washington nationals gave jayson werth $126 million over the next 7 years. and they say they are not done. werth officially introduced yesterday putting on his number

i think that our values, many have stated, including general patraeus, that our values are one of our best tools in the fight against terrorism. that includes a value that we do not torture. it is against u.s. law. and it is considered -- it is against our international legal obligations. and it is something we do not do as americans and is something we should not do. it makes us stronger that we embrace those values and that we fulfill those volumes in our counter-terrorism policy. host: the advocacy counsel at human rights first has observed the military commission proceedings at gtmo. mr. chafee has a law degree from georgetown. next call, go ahead. caller: i would like to make a statement and i think i have maybe three questions. host: i will ask you to pick one because we are running out of time. caller: i will just say the question then. i would like to know, who finances you, who you are affiliated with, and -- what i did notice is that guantanamo is not that far from haiti. and one thing i did notice they do is that in the united states they do make them work. why not make the

i think that our values, many have stated, including general patraeus that our values are one of our best tls in the fight against terrorism. that includes a value that we do not torture. it is against u.s. law. and it is considered -- it is against our international legal obligations. and it is something we do not do as americans and is something we should not do. it makes us stronger that we embrace those values and that we fulfill those volumes in our counter-terrorism policy. host: the advocacy counsel at human rights first has observed the military commission proceedings at gtmo. mr. chafee has a law degree from georgetown. next call, go ahead. caller: i would like to make a statement and i think i have maybe three questions. host: i will ask you to pick one because we are running out of time. caller: i will just say the question then. i would like to know, who finances you who you are affiliated with, and -- what i did notice is that guantanamo is not that far from haiti. and one thing i did notice they do is that in the united states they do make them work. why not make them d