al-qaeda has been decimated over there. that you can look at as a victory. while the government is horribly corrupt, it s still a working semi government. so i d rather negotiate with the taliban to stay there five years. taliban is not very mobile. monica: let s talk about a bigger foreign policy picture issue which is the idea of entrench. so all the u.s. troops are out. will re-trenching pretty soon from afghanistan. we have these massive defense cuts coming down the pike which the president said he is not going to fight. he wants a trillion dollars gutted from the pentagon over ten years. we can debate iraq and afghanistan but when you put it altogether there is disputism in this foreign policy. there is no question about that. point is not to be involved in land wars in central asia or the
shellered bin laden and was responsible for 9/11. it s just disgraceful. the vice president has some idea that we can negotiate some kind of peace settlement with the taliban while we are leaving and by the way, news reports are they want to trade as confidence building measures to release taliban prisoners from guantanamo. this is the wrong headed kind of thing i have ever than countered. monica: you are hundred percent correct. were you really surprised given the fact that this administration they do want a political settlement in afghanistan so hightail out of there and high tailed out of iraq and they have sent john kerry and reaching out to the muslim brotherhood which is sworn to the destruction of the west and israel. this is an administration on one hand we re fighting islamic terror but we re getting into the bed with some of the same
iraq. now with afghanistan, announcing the withdrawal. so what they are doing here by talking to the taliban and trying to get a political resolution to this is just an excuse to get out. this is not about protecting the united states. why wouldn t we want to get out? isn t the whole point to get out. to kill and destroy the enemy. the objective is to protect the united states, period. that is the only objective we ve had. the negotiations with a terrorist adversary, are is no negotiation to be had, do you think that is wise thing? i do think it s wise. because after the began government has been secretly negotiating with the taliban, the united states is aware of that. i think per se comes in with the vice president. the taliban does have power over
this the relationship of the whole area. but secondly, i read the kite runner. i thought this was a self-help book but these taliban are awful people so we shouldn t be negotiating with them at all. check out the kite runner. but the taliban are loathsome but he went on to say that is the point. to keep united states from being attacked by terrorists. and moral judgments, i m not sure if they have a place in international affairs. point is protecting the united states. monica: here is the issue, this administration has been opposed to the iraq and afghanistan wars. they have been looking for every opportunity to get out. now obama is completely out of
al-qaeda has been decimated over there. that you can look at as a victory. while the government is horribly corrupt, it s still a working semi government. so i d rather negotiate with the taliban to stay there five years. taliban is not very mobile. monica: let s talk about a bigger foreign policy picture issue which is the idea of entrench. so all the u.s. troops are out. will re-trenching pretty soon from afghanistan. we have these massive defense cuts coming down the pike which the president said he is not going to fight. he wants a trillion dollars gutted from the pentagon over ten years. we can debate iraq and afghanistan but when you put it altogether there is disputism in this foreign policy. there is no question about that. point is not to be involved in land wars in central asia or the