I got from the former commandant. A few years ago i asked him, general, i dont have the military background. How successful can we be in training the afghans to be soldiers and policemen . And, of course, we realize there is a problem with education in that country, and i understand that. But let me read what he said very quickly. Get real in training an army and police force. Trainers are doing a wonderful job, but we dont have the time to make an army. And he closed by saying every day somebody dies. My question to you, we are faced with a debt of 18 trillion. Were going to be debating in about a month a debt ceiling increase so we can borrow more money from foreign governments primarily to pay the bills for last year. The american taxpayer has got to know at some point in time theres going to be an end to this investment. Money, blood, theres got to be an end to it. I heard something you were saying a while ago, and this is going to lead to the question. At some time, ive been heari
And know that they were working with who they identified as their afghan brothers so just im regret that so much hey, bad i can remember the first time i went to afghanistan with sheila jacksonlee. She pointed out that bad news has no feet and excuse me. What is it . Good news has no feet and bad news has wings. And wow. But the bad the good thing is that extraordinary progress has been made and i agree with the chairman, too, that success in afghanistan is to deny terrorists safe havens which protects American Families and that we cannot forget it was september 11th, 2001, the attacks on our country, that were originated, planned and culminated from caves in afghanistan so im just very appreciative of your efforts and the largely bipartisan support we have here w. That in mind, with this special operations reliance of support from conventional forces, if conventional forces are reduced, as has been called for, how can special operations fill in this gap . Sir, today, we continue to ta
It would limit our ability to train, advise and assist, yes, sir. Okay. Mr. Smith. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Can you talk to us in general about the relationship between afghanistan and pakistan and the various groups that are involved there . I guess related to that is the conversation about reconciliation talks between the taliban and afghan government. First of all, what hopes do you have for that . Second of all, no matter what comes out of that, there will always be groups on both sides of the border that arent part of it. Whats sort of your tell us a little bit about the groups who might be involved, who might be reconcilable who we might still have to fight and how the relationship between afghanistan and pakistan factors into those negotiations . Thanks for the question. As you know, very conflicted between pakistan and afghanistan. I do try to maintain ties with pakistan. I talk to general sharif probably once a week. I try to get to pakistan once a month. We really work hard t
Looking at a routine inspection of Coalition Forces and training exercises when the shooting took ways. The suspect targeting a group of soldiers who are clustered together for a briefing before the soldiers could react and kill him. President obama despite delivering a halfhour speech, neglected to comment on the tragedy. But here is a pentagon spokesperson explaining the significance of todays attack. In september 11, 2001, ahead of their personal branch was killed and we can try to do the research on this. But i believe that this would be the highest ranking. Since then. He went on to express the belief that the Afghan National forces are getting stronger by the week. We have Doug Mckelway with our report. I was inside the academy and suddenly i heard three gunshots. After the shooting, helicopters landed and took away their casualties. It happened at west point, the recently constructed National Defense university. Many were seriously wounded and others received only minor injuries
Looking at a routine inspection of Coalition Forces and training exercises when the shooting took ways. The suspect targeting a group of soldiers who are clustered together for a briefing before the soldiers could react and kill him. President obama despite delivering a halfhour speech, neglected to comment on the tragedy. But here is a pentagon spokesperson explaining the significance of todays attack. In september 11, 2001, ahead of their personal branch was killed and we can try to do the research on this. But i believe that this would be the highest ranking. Since then. He went on to express the belief that the Afghan National forces are getting stronger by the week. We have Doug Mckelway with our report. I was inside the academy and suddenly i heard three gunshots. After the shooting, helicopters landed and took away their casualties. It happened at west point, the recently constructed National Defense university. Many were seriously wounded and others received only minor injuries