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scott morgan? -- worden? guest: this is not an isolated effort. it is useful want to see it in religious terms, although that is the rhetoric that is used by all qaeda -- al qaeda. but seeing this in the larger picture, i think what you will find about al qaeda's movement and location, advances, is that they wind up being a pretty good indicator of where you have a lack of governance. in many ways, they point out where the states are failing and where there are vacuums in leadership and they go there. give saw that in afghanistan when it was ruled by the taliban, certainly in the tribal areas of pakistan where there is no central government role for decades if not centuries. when the movements to places like somalia and yemen, you recognize that while the motivation may be a nearly religious on their part, the opportunity is presented in areas that do not have stability. i think that it really relates to the overall mission in afghanistan which is to say that it costs a tremendous amount of lives and money to intervene when to have a terrorist bas

scott worden skills as president obama is an unannounced trip to afghanistan and the relationship betweenleased by open secrets.org. washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> if i had to put my money on a likely outcome, it would be that peace in iraq, and it might be a very harsh peace, will ultimately be imposed once again by a hypocrisy, we just have to hope that if that does happen, the new ruler, the new dictator will be a lot more benign than was saddam hussein. >> john burns, longtime foreign correspondent for "the returns" on iraq. >> unemployment rose to 9.8%, adding just 39,000 jobs in november, far below expected job growth. keith hill gave the new unemployment numbers to the joint economic committee on capitol hill. he told committee members that up to 125,000 jobs need to be added to the economy each month before the unemployment rate will be reduced. this is one hour. >> ok. today's hearing with the commissioner will mark the last hearing that i will chair as the chairwoman of the joint economic committee. almost two years ago, shortly after the inauguratio