general petraeus is heading over to the cia so let's talk about these two characters we have william mcraven and we have lieutenant general john allen who do you think is really going to have more power here the commander of the troops or the one that's ahead in charge of special operations well basically the commander of the troops of the area he general allen will have altered what can be obviously if there's an operation. special operations forces you're going to have the head of the special don't you think that we're going to start seeing a lot more operations with special. forces a sickly. response for example that you haven't and obviously pakistan along the pakistan afghanistan border counterinsurgency is not something we do well it's not something that the american people have a great deal with patience for it doesn't play to your technological strength so yes you're going to see as we call it counterterrorism where you use the special operations people forget you know iraq you have got an awful lot of special operations going on while we're talking about counterinsurgency and even w

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