next is "little america" by rajiv chandrasekeran. initially america's intervention in afghanistan was strikingly successful. the al qaeda forces responsible for the 9/11 attacks were driven into neighboring pakistan and the post at taliban government was ousted from power. but the united states and the coalition forces were stretched thin by simultaneous complex in iraq and afghanistan. by 2009, the taliban had regained control of much of afghanistan's countryside and was threatening major urban centers. the massive surge of troops avoided a collapse but could not produce a victory. rajiv chandrasekeran, the washington post's veteran war correspondent identifies the underlying weaknesses that doom that search and at best the outcome was the ending of a stalemate or a quiet -- chaotic withdrawal and from their earlier u.s. effort known as "little america" as then with those accomplishments they were undermined by corruption corruption, waste, competing players and unreliable afghan forces. some officials including richard holbrooke un

we need to have a public debate about this. >> schieffer: why should these things be secret, rajiv?an understand why some of it has to be secret. sometimes when an entire program is classified it seems to me of whether it ought to be classified. >> it cuts off reasonable debate in congress and elsewhere about the merits of it and more specifically the implementation of it. people have been generally willing to allow the national security agency, the federal government to engage in certain types of programs in the spirit of keeping the nation safe. but what was different this past week, bob, was we learned that the n.s.a. was vacuuming up phone records of all of americans, at least from what we know about what they were doing with verizon we can extrapolate to that being with other carriers and the story the "washington post" reported about the n.s.a. searching material, google, yahoo!, facebook among others it raises some real questions about how the government is going about conducting this. so long as it's 50% focused on foreigners, that's good enough, this dismissive attitude tha

rajiv bhatia has been placed on administrative leave.ces tell "the chronicle," bhatia serves on the board of a couple of non-profits including one that apparently has worked with higgs division of the public health department. bhatia says he wasn't aware he was doing anything wrong. >>> at 6:55, another rough day on the markets. >> scott mcgrew, it's been nearly a week since the fed said it would ease that easy money and the markets are still reacting. >> still reacting. you think someone might jump in and buy, jon. it's called catching a falling knife. whether you're talking about stocks or knives, not a good idea. we continue to see the market sink. the dow industrials are down 200 points this morning. the nasdaq down 51. one consolation, we knew this would happen. we knew as early as last monday this would happen. marla and jon, over the weekend i hosted the ernst and young entrepreneur of the year awards, these are the oscars of silicon valley. the ak%ájz i bring this up is i was looking at all the nominations. no surprise but many o

officials in istanbul rajiv tarbet one once again accuse the protesters of violence and vandalism saying it would be dealt with more harshly in a european country or the demonstrators have been packing cities across the country for a week now after police crushed a peaceful environmental sit in attacks him square that in turn ignited street battles which reportedly left three people dead in clashes which saw tear gas water canon and electric batteries deployed protest support joins us now live from new york and either why do you support the occupy taxi campaigners. first of all i'm obliged to tell that it is it can only be a sign of weakness to call round of them. the people who are resisting a very brutal law enforcement enforcement down with disproportionate intelligence with aesthetical be aesthetic beauty with humor and with heroic determination and why i support this movement is that simply life is so beautiful when people get together and together struggle for some coals engage in political activity and daily activities and so on and i believe that this is the only way we can tackl