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we want to go, or how we're going to get there and the reason for that was best summarized by tony schafferke a listen. >> what we have is, like you said, a group of egotistical folks committed to a course of action, letting people die for the good of a political decision rather than on a practical one. >> we saw this coming out of context and conflict. the culture of political denial when the actual game doesn't reconcile with the viable strategy that's been agreed to in washington, d.c. >> but there was no real strategy to get out and decide what we were going to do. what needed to be accomplished. >> the only reason i'll disagree with that is we were going to secure the border between afghanistan and pakistan to prevent al qaeda from being able to encroach in pakistan in a way we can't chase them. what joe said was we are not doing any of that. everything we said we were going to do in the context of that mission isn't happening. what is happening is this sort of ambient, don't get killed strategy. we're going to put you in places where people want to kill you and not get killed. >> you