in besieged communities but we are trying to create something and we will off load there to nato because american public is tired of fighting wars. shepard: who left to run the place if the goal is achieved? guest: we will find a nice educated english speaking libyan who has been in the states for a while. shepard: sounds like karzai. guest: goes back to others in iraq, as well, and we have plenty of people like that who will stand up as icons of democracy but nothing will work under them because there are a lot of people in high positions that do not want to let go of security or economic infrastructure. so we trying to get things organized to topple it nicely. shepard: does this stop it? or does it spread? we have saudi arabia as a concern, and others.
how much of that money has gone to the war in afghanistan and hunting down osama bin laden? a third $443 billion went to afghanistan and we have a chart to he you where the money went elsewhere. iraq, $806 billion and $444 for afghanistan and there are a couple of lines you will like, enhanced security, $29 billion. unallocated $6 billion, the details are can t on these are scant on this. the $1.5 trillion is the least of it. by 2021 according to the congressional budget office the spending will be $1.8 trillion. so the numbers keep going up despite the fact that the pentagon is saying we will bring troops home. shepard: and there is money on top of that for agencies like
jut like there were in pakistan, there are probably targets we feed to pursue, but, how we could that is open. shepard: it would be nice to define success in afghanistan, too. hopefully we will figure out a way to do that. author of the heart and the fist, the making of a navy seal. the white house press secretary tells us the government has the last images of osama bin laden s body and they are gruesome. the president we are told has to make a decision about whether to she the world what happened to the al qaeda leader. either choice could have serious repercussions. [ female announcer ] it s new, and it s the most delicious thing
nights ago was a major blow and more than a symbol. it sounds like we got a lot of intelligence off of the target and when that happens we can exploit that intelligence and pursue further operations in order to degrade the al qaeda network. there is no way for al qaeda to pretend there was not a major win and our furthers will be on alert and they will take the fight to al qaeda. shepard: we know they are not in afghanistan. is it time to get out? guest: we have a lot of work to do in afghanistan. al qaeda remnants are there, taliban are this, and that is a big question to look at. for the present moment there is still a real threat and we need to maintain vigilance. as far as yemen, that is a complex situation. incredibly complex. before we step foot into a place like yemen we need to assess what would the commander s intent be? how would we actually define success, in yemen.
goes through is painstaking, connecting dots that we don t know what is in between is pocket liter gives us insight into how we connect the dots. bill is right, the volume of stuff is phenomenal, we don t know the content. it is clear when you match up what could be on that information with people that have gone through interrogation, we could find a new area we need to look at. shepard: that would be amazing. we will talk about that but first a commercial. and osama bin laden s response team has cost over $1 trillion, 10 years of building up the security complex. security complex. stay tuned. if you have gout, high uric acid can lead to more attacks.