services were side by side. they have turned over major ones to us and this is because now and the real emphasis is because the militants have overstepped. when they went too far, really, really angered the pakistanis, and the assassination there. they re playing both sides. when they feel threatened themselves, they act against these guys. you ve told us for this to be successful, you have to get the taliban and al-qaida in pakistan at the same time you re gutting afghanist afghanistan? isn t it happening? i don t think it s happening. it s a very good thing to have taken that cave complex. gary would know better than i do but the force we have in afghanistan is not capable of defeating the enemy. it will tread water for a while and they ll win individual battles like it did in marjah. we can go anywhere we want but we can t stay there and that s the real problem. we re vastly understaffed in
gates was? yeah. yeah. but he says he couldn t get anything done. and i think, you know, as you read through his complaints, what you see is really just a lack of leadership on the part of the command er in chief. he supported the troops, but he didn t support his own strategy. not the surge in 2009 but against the advice of robert gates and david petraeus, the military commander at the time, he put a deadline on all withdrawal. meaning he undermined his own war effort and undermined the troops he was sending into afghanist afghanistan. kim, what about this issue that he talks about where hillary clinton and president obama both acknowledged in a meeting that their opposition to the iraq surge in 2007 had been political? i think we more or less knew that too, although to see it phrased like that and acknowledged is nonetheless telling confirmation of detail.
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