political headlines, but what does it say about america s longest war? the highlights or low lights as they may be. the the actual names of pakistan member who is have aided taliban in attacks against our soldiers. fighting the enemy with very little resources and the innocent afghan citizens are often the unintended victims of the battle. none of the information is new, but another blow in an increasingly deadly war. some comparing it to the pentagon papers. the whistle blower behind the latest document dump and the holder of thousands of more documents, wiki leak s cofounder speaking out on this in london this morning. it will shape an understanding of the past six years has been like. and that the course of the war needs to change. the manner in which it needs to change is not yet clear. both the pentagon and white house are in attack calling the release not only detrimental to the war effort but also outright illegal. whenever you have the potential for names and op
spending. there. looking for what i see as a needle in a haystack to try to figure out where the actual liability is. while spending this amount of money and creating the level of disruption in other countries that are not here for all the reasons we can get into. while we spend a fraction of that amount on homeland security. are we misguided and not investing more in counterterrorism, if i come into the room and i say, lieutenant colonel, they want to blow up new york. they want to blow up the capital. l.a., a nuke, an airport, i can create a list for you. can we create a budget that basically defends the obvious targets and then get a little more intelligent as to how we behave with the dragnet overseas as opposed to creating a full-scale war to make some political constituency feel tough? i think you ve got to do both, dylan. frankly, i agree with you, regarding the homeline defense. let s be very clear here, i don t want to use the word but i m going to have to.
the attempted attack and claimed responsibility. but then yesterday an official taliban spokesman denied the group had any connection to it the contradiction highlights the amore fous nature of the enemy. it begs the question, how big threat are they really? and how do we respond to that? all i want to that, have we created in ourselves a unique vulnerability to pakistan? byt( focusing on afghanistan specifically and having to utilize pakistan as a base of operations for a war in afghanistan. joining us now, christine fare, assistant for the center for peace securities at georgetown university. and a senior fellow at the center for advanced defense studies in washington, d.c., lieutenant-colonel anthony schaeffer. tony, i will begin with you. how coordinated a relationship is there, in your opinion of terrorist operation or
thank you for it i appreciate it. christine fare, tony schaeffer. thank you. up next in busted behind closed doors, why will not our president and his debt commission meet in public? are they trying to cut your social security while they cut checks to subsidize bank gambling at the same time? meanwhile, kudos to the united states army for taking it easy with the troops who made our day, with that little piece of r&r that turned into a tribute to lady gaga. national car rental?
the reality is that many of these groups are have overlapping networks. overlapping infrastructure. and until we re willing to say to the pakistanis, none of these camps are acceptable, we re going to remain vulnerable from our own citizenry, be it natural born or naturalized. radicalizing here, going there for training. it may be the next time the guy isn t going to be as incompetent as shahzad was. so the next time this happens the outcome could be quite different. there s a couple of ways, tony. but when you look at the reality. my perception of reality, where it seems that the terrorists, if you will, have a few targets that are fairly obvious. they would like to bomb new york. ideally, i would presume times square, some other densely populated area. i presume they would like to hit washington, d.c. in some fashion. you can go to other locations. and then you look at our policy. which is, massives, massive overseas full-scale war