of our country. i want to ask you finally this is a bigger topic than we can get into all the details of. i want to ask you about afghanistan, the president visiting the troops there, a surprise visit. when we talk about our goals, all the concerns about hamid karzai, the afghan leader, corruptions and so forth, it takes me back to a famous moment before you were senator, april 1971 when you said this on capitol hill about vietnam. how do you ask a man to be the last man to die from a state? my question to you is you look at the landscape of our withdrawal plans in 2014. is it a mistake in afghanistan to think, asked to be the last to die in a war that may not be able to achieve the results that we have laid out for us? first of all, i looked at that and said, boy, he needs a haircut. look, in my judgment, afghanistan is just not vietnam. we shouldn t have been in
only 14 months away from the presidential primaries and caucuses starting up. i think it is going type jekt itself in both flatter and see an isolationist strain in the republican party and primaries. a question we have been asking a great deal on this show and on meet the press, david gregory put the same question to senator john kerry. take a listen. it takes me become to a famous moment before you were senator, april 1971, when you said this on capitol hill about vietnam. how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? my question to you, as you look at the landscape of our withdrawal plans in 2014, is it a mistake in afghanistan to think, be to ask soldiers to be the last to die in a war that may not be able to achieve the results that we have laid out for it? well, first of all, i just looked at that and i said, boy, he needs a haircut. right. nch look in my judgment,
on the inside of something where it has great ability to undo our ability to protect the interest of our country. i want to ask you finally this is a bigger topic than we can get into all the details of. i want to ask you about afghanistan, the president visiting the troops there, a surprise visit. when we talk about our goals, all the concerns about hamid karzai, the afghan leader, corruptions and so forth, it takes me back to a famous moment before you were senator, april 1971 when you said this on capitol hill about vietnam. how do you ask a man to be the last man to die from a state? my question to you is you look at the landscape of our withdrawal plans in 2014. is it a mistake in afghanistan to think, asked to be the last to die in a war that may not be able to achieve the results that we have laid out for us? first of all, i looked at that and said, boy, he needs a haircut. look, in my judgment,
this is a bigger topic than we can get into all the details of. i want to ask you about afghanistan, the president visiting the troops there, a surprise visit. when we talk about our goals, all the concerns about hamid karzai, the afghan leader, questions about corruptions and so forth, it takes me back to a famous moment before you were senator, april 1971 when you said this on capitol hill about vietnam. how do you ask a man to be the last man to die from a mistake. my question to you is you look at the landscape of our withdrawal plans in 2014. is it a mistake in afghanistan to think, asked to be the last to die in a war that may not be able to achieve the results that we have laid out for us? first of all, i looked at that and said, boy, he needs a haircut. look, in my judgment, afghanistan is just not vietnam. we shouldn t have been in vietnam. it was a surrogate war, civil war, it was a cold war, surrogate war. there are any number of reasons why it was a gigantic mistake.