and in my opinion, it s the heart of the issue. the heart of the issue? yeah, it is. look. it s the u.s. military. it s nato. if you put enough american soldiers somewhere, they re going to win at least for a while. they re going to kill everyone who s fighting them. that s kind of a given. but the problem is that s not a long-term solution. we can t stay there for ever. the afghans don t want us there for ever. so to have a long-term solution, you need the afghans themselves to buy into this fight. to make this fight their own. but why would you if you were an afghan civilian, why would you do that if the government you re fighting to protect, that you re risking your life for is corrupt? it s a contradictory message we re delivering. peter, you see the corruption. you see these mcmansions going up in kabul which are owned by people associated with the government who earn a small fraction of a salary that there s no way they could pay for this, then that wikileaks cable that t
and in my opinion, it s the heart of the issue. the heart of the issue? yeah, it is. look. it s the u.s. military. it s nato. if you put enough american soldiers somewhere, they re going to win at least for a while. they re going to kill everyone who s fighting them. that s kind of a given. but the problem is that s not a long-term solution. we can t stay there for ever. the afghans don t want us there for ever. so to have a long-term solution, you need the afghans themselves to buy into this fight. to make this fight their own. but why would you if you were an afghan civilian, why would you do that if the government you re fighting to protect, that you re risking your life for is corrupt? it s a contradictory message we re delivering. peter, you see the corruption. you see these mcmansions going up in kabul which are owned by people associated with the government who earn a small fraction of a salary that there s no way they could pay for this, then that wikileaks