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now we head back to afghanistan guy who's been there is that this that these
are better left served in afghanistan and in
oblivious insect their work
and uh... he's all support of both that's an easy editor of the website
sports richard lonely on purpose anything could be your list
alright size come in on that has so
in the beginning of a balmy administration use i
you were generally supportive of his policy an afghan says that like
yeah im prop of the bush administration are in the
though that dot or com had called for increased resources for afghanistan
and the beginning of the com
obama ministration called for the famed thing but the the way that the president
of the picture with the policy
are complying with the deterioration
system on the ground
have created here if confirmed for us about how we're going to move forward in
afghanistan that's interesting to see you know i know you guys alum
oblivion politely pissed off a lot of people on lapd brett
we're we're within weeks of the water flack from alongs of one time or what
went for
are not coming out again
uh... increasing troops in afghanistan
leading corporate will collect the pit you have these sites with any weapons
you that you know and i agree with you so it
it's after having taken all their flag to begin to change your position is
interesting so what led in that direction
well pathetically with him the
the fifth of the food for the tragedy of president obama alignment
armor we have three making armed with that
the first to deal with uh... character trading that you've
spoken out on your show
com and the president even acknowledged in his speech at the white bread fraud
in the election and and federal officials of the counter thirty p policy
our strategy rather that we have a legitimate government we can partner
with
and with the white brick russian election fraud the carter administration
we just don't have that
and the president did not articulate
how we're going to do with that moving forward and what if anything we can to
mitigate that
aren't recipients legal
to let me stop there for a second and talk a little bit about that because if
i'm not
you know well the troops on the ground
and by presidents estimate it was that i need your help
annemarie and more people here so we can build up the karzai government
i think i'd be pretty uncomfortable with that this what arms activist a buildup
karzai who we've known for the fact is corrupt
this does not you to us and that is that something that really bothers people up
but that are fine all around
artillery understand we spend our and i don't know
how much the average trip on the ground thinks about
issues division that but more
in the isn't gonna work
you know if you go to work part with cargo not much of bomb you know
being angry that were still cooking hard-line your
they've been putting your life on the line to protect protective cropper gene
morse but we didnt work or we can achieve our goal than partnering with
the carter administration yeah that makes sense that was another two points
out that led to
concern for you
alm secondly is again with the current currency from the military's really
typical of the box
we're we're not
the entire strategy and the president did market relate what other bomb
civilian eight gap between the increasing their commitment afghanistan
like state department knew that they are the aren't going to tell a greeting
please we didn't hear anything from that
the president
and uh... left-wing what i think the most important point is the effect of
the going to have on what i call for sustainability
which is issued like well time which is about crime trip at home between
appoinment
on the link the deployment
and uh...
um... stop what policy
now author you
antigovernment seven the height of search we head
roughly two hundred two thousand
troops supported or speed between iraq and afghanistan
and during that period i might help in afghanistan out stop also doing a
fifteen-month deployment
and got my unit had been home well under a year between the point
bom
uh... giving
and now we're looking at is having with this additional troops and afghanistan
and not increasing the paypal withdrawal from iraq
around two hundred and twenty thousand troops overseas
and the administration at first
from are not just the white helps a lot for the pentagon
omp thirty regain secretary warren
far both that are very active ah...
chairman joint chiefs mohan
are both of the would have an effect on the issues
well yesterday in a couple of points senate admiral mullen
ob came up with the would affect what time and we
wouldn't feed increase in the world farm in the way that we have plans
so that's really the the bigger concern but we have booked them
all right that's that's a lot of concerns that we built a yes davis earle
wrote today that he's two years ago to thirty thousand troops doesn't lead to
defensive towers susan seats tas in cordoba
manuals written on that by the military united states also you need six hundred
thousand troops in afghanistan
uh... to be able to do it and here we would get up to a hundred thousand of
our own troops we're going to read a bit misleading on that it would occur
in the character going to kill mental course but
that also includes up
local national security forces
an offer that that number picnic out the complete population of an attack and
them
when are really the only vocal region that need we need you know to give
x_-rated intrinsic here or in the eastern now
i love then let's go also
that's a great quantities so would what some
you think that the thirty thousand additional troops at least
actually helps on the ground for the purposes that are stated
pro army investigator question with a question or a drink but i mean what were
the perfect understated
that's another thing we did here
and people applied what
what is the definition of victory what will fix that looked like afghanistan
how we know that we have for you
he didn't know we're ready to come home
yeah that's a good class yeltsin i guess what nobody was saying last night is so
you know we
quite shocked kato that is not really in afghanistan but somehow our troops wind
up helping crushing allocated pakistan
and we stabilize um...
afghanistan but
we deleted definition of what stabilizing it means that mean
if you're in the military do they give you a sense of what that means are there
certain standards hey you know we feel like we've stabilize kandahar we can
move on
how do we make that judgment call do you have any idea
our own generally i mean her
i wasn't you know one of the
the bigwigs
planning in washington or depending on anything i was just the
uh... joe on the ground with my rifle butt
usually doesn't trickle down to that level you're given
you're going to put the admission of pacific ocean that mission what you're
going to do
and breath at something that doesn't need to be
looked at on the level of planning bmp are contemplating taking that concept
of giving the physical permission like you know you're going to find the person
you're going to clear different area of and thirteen you know something like
that on the national level might be beneficial
all right so at the end of the day then
what would you do what i mean if you're a bomb a situation and you know you've
got these uh... three concerns that you laid out which i share with you and i'm
very concerned about that too giving them the right answer is you know what
we've done in all as much as we can in afghanistan and we should begin to
withdraw now or do you think there's another solution
or aggravated questioner treatment program cleared i mean that i would be
prevented
uh... we just don't know yet what the plan has been laid out
i'm not
opposing the plan though that there were even opposing the point
what we were thinking that their there's a lot of blanks and what would laid out
the need to be filled in we need to answer these questions
on the strategy before we can determine if it something worked supporting
all right in the world will see if he feels that i am but that was supposed to
the speech that where do you feel the sun on all that and uh... i think with
you i mean i was so we'll have a lot of questions
as to those points you brought up so i don't know when they get answered i
don't know if there's a timeline for answering those questions
but that has occurred we hope to her i hope so too but i know book that's going
to stay on top of it
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