former secretary of defense william cohen joins us live from washington. let's get into what the president has to do. no one's talking about abandoning afghanistan, are they? >> no. what's happened is there seems to be a mismatch between strategy and resources. in other words, president obama has said recently as march, we need a counterinsurgency strategy. that's why he put general mcchrystal in. if you've got a counterinsurgent strategy, and your general, the one you pult your confidence in, says we need more resources, you either have the wrong strategy or you need to fill these resources now. if the strategy is wrong, change it now. don't leave men and women who are fighting on a strategy you think may be wrong fl you make a really interesting point. there seems to be a lot of advice that's been circulating out there. this report leaked, bob woodward and "the washington post," we hear the vice president, joe biden, does not say we're sending more troops. perhaps the secretary of state, hillary clinton, does favor sending more troops. doesn't the presid

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william cohen will join us to talk about the obama administration options in afghanistan. couple of hours from now william ouchi talks about his new book. we will have a doctor to talk about the latest treatment and research of alzheimer's. "washington journal" is next. . . here are the numbers to call in today. democrats, to a 2-737-0002. -- you can always send us an e- mail, journal@c-span.org or on twitter. we will get to your response shortly. the news of the iranian missile launches, the tests leading the headlines. this headline, in show of force, iran test fires missiles. orange, register, iran plans more missile tests. successful test of shorter-range missiles may prompt harsh sanctions. in "the washington times," iran tests missiles after new disclosure. gates concedes u.s. has no permanent military solution. they write that iran rebuked the united states and western partners sunday by testing a series of short range rockets almost as a caveat after days of rancor over tehran posset acknowledgement that it was building a second facility capable of making fuel for a

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former secretary william cohen looks at the obama administration's options in washington. author william ouchi talks about his new books, and the latest on treatment and research of alzheimer's. "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> up next, remarks from u.s. central commander david petraeus. then we will show you a house hearing on renewing the employment nondiscrimination act. after that q&a with senate historian richard baker. >> an event now with u.s. central commander general david petraeus. he talks about the situation in afghanistan. it was part of an event hosted by the marine corps university here in washington. it is about 90 minutes. >> good afternoon. since the fourth of september, i have been the president of marine corps university. it is our pleasure to be with you here today. before we get to our last panel and our keynote speaker, i would like to take an opportunity to thank all the people that made this event possible. the foundation provides the university a wide range of support for educational purposes for events like this, for academ

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we were talking to former defense secretary william cohen earlier on this program and he said, look, if the president wants to change strategies, he's got to change strategies. he's got to make a decision, because our men and women are dying in afghanistan. how much time does the president have to make a decision on additional deployment of troops? clearly, he has as long as he wants, he's the commander in chief. but generally speaking, what do you think he would have to do to put a decision out on that? >> well, you know, there are several factors at play here. one is the fact that the president is embroiled in a very contentious debate with his own democrats over health care reform. and one pentagon official had suggested to us that the president didn't want to open up a new front of confrontation, because you know many of his own democrats do not want to put any additional forces into afghanistan. so there's a suggestion, at least, that he wants to get over the health care reform hurdle. and we know that's going to take some time. but then you run up against the military time cloc

william cohen tells cnn the general is right. >> if you want to win hearts and minds, you have to pursue the strategy. if you say it costs too much, takes too long, then you come up with a counterterrorist strategy, which means you're going to start killing people and risk killing a lot of innocent civilians. >> he goes on to say the u.s. could lose in afghanistan without more soldiers. a lot of democrats say they're against that. >>> some people accused of terrorism are going free because prosecutors don't have enough strong evidence. a new study says the government is prosecuting about one in four terror suspects. it found federal agencies don't agree on how to categorize the crimes. >>> dangerous flooding forcing people from their homes, devastating entire areas in the fill feens. at least 140 people have died. some held on for their lives on floating debris. rescuers are trying to reach families waiting for help on rooftops. thousands of people don't have water, food or electricity. officials say it's the worst flooding in 40 years. >>> in this country, the phrase for the day, hang o

also former defense secretary in the clinton administration, william cohen, to talk about the decisioning process that this president is now facing in afghanistan and his own experiences during the clinton years. william ouchi wrote "the secret of t.s.l. ." final dr. phelps with the national institute of aging, a new report on alzheimer's, 35 million worldwide. more on these issues tomorrow morning. the "washington journal" gets under way every day at 7:00 a.m. east coast time, 4:00 for those of you on the west coast. thanks for joining us on this sunday. enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week ahead. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] they will talk about the history of the senate, and he showed some rare photos of senators. "q & a," tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span. >> joining us on news makers for this sunday is congressman spencer bach as, republican from alabama and ranking member of the house financial services committee. joining us for questioning is shawn. and we have alison

cohen what are you talking about? lbj bringing in other ethnic groups, bringing in lgston hughes, cooking traditional, fr different backgrounds besides williamtt's. >> guest: to bring in the briefest and dry can, in public, we have been trained, you are not supposed to show your emotions. if you are talking about something painful, think it is normal to do that. the ones i wonder about a the ones who can talk about suffering in a glib, playful way as if they don't know that it's real. i like people like this woman. i would simply say we are all aware, many of us are aware the newspaper needs to be -- this protest, people don't want president obama speaking to kids in their schools, here is what believe. i just think there are more basically decent, open minded, emotionally generous people in america than you would believe if you just look at these isolated sort of screwball groups that have a particular axto grind for, don't want president obama to speak in their school because they think he is socialist or something like that. despe tha despite frequent meanness and viciousness of many of the people who attacd me from the right, it is no fu