make the best of what we have. one of the discussions is about president obama s thoughts on afghanistan. and the press secretary jay carney said when president obama inherited the war from president bush 43, your former boss, it was in disdisarray by the judgment of many. what do you think about that? look, i think that s revisionism. let s step back and take a broader view of what the excerpts tell us about president obama. they tell us, first of all, when he talked about afghanistan being the right war, during 2007 and 2008, how we have taken our eye off of the ball by focusing on iraq when we should have been focused on winning afghanistan, that that was just merely political rhetoric. we know from secretary gates excerpts that president obama did not believe his own surge strategy, that he did not think particularly highly of our chances for success in afghanistan, and that his principle goal was not to win but to get america out.
obama inherited the war from president bush 43, your former boss, it was in disdisarray by the judgment of many. what do you think about that? look, i think that s revisionism. let s step back and take a broader view of what the excerpts tell us about president obama. they tell us, first of all, when he talked about afghanistan being the right war, during 2007 and 2008, how we have taken our eye off of the ball by focusing on iraq when we should have been focused on winning afghanistan, that that was just merely political rhetoric. we know from secretary gates excerpts that president obama did not believe his own surge strategy, that he did not think particularly highly of our chances for success in afghanistan, and that his principle goal was not to win but to get america out. and so i think i think that s very damaging criticism of president obama. and, in addition, i m sorry?
administration of insects in the war in afghanistan. we know from gates excerpts he didn t believe in his own surge strategy, he did not think highly of our chances for success in afghanistan and principle goal was not to win but to get america out. i think that is very damaging criticism of president obama. rouge going on to say he was struck by a point that gates made saying secretary clinton and president obama opposed the surge because they were running against each other in an election. they were running against each other and thought if they didn t oppose the surge in iraq which won the war in iraq which has been frittered away by the diplomacy of the current administration they both opposed it not out of principal or policy but out of politics. that is pretty astonishing.
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chechen rebels have not put america out as a target. there are no calls to target america or to kill americans. the leaders of the chechen rebels call to kill, they call to kill russians. further if you go to the main pro-chechen independence website, you ll see there is a discussion of the boston bombers. they call them strange. that is they re distancing themselves from the boston attacks. now, so what does that mean? that means that there s probably something that s happening here that s loosely connected to chechnya, but not specifically so. and we ve seen similar things in other homegrown terrorist cell its, such as the london bombers in 2005. in 2005, we saw four bombers, three of pakistani origin, one of jamaican origin, who were motivated by perceived injustices against muslims around the world. they weren t focusing on muslims from pakistan or jamaica, they