corrupt government that we ve ever dealt with from a conflict standpoint. and until you provide some stability and some confidence in the afghan people about the way forward from a governing standpoint, then i think that statement probably has some truth to it, that we could win militarily and still have a very ugly victory. and still lose. and senator reid, isn t that the problem is that the military doesn t seem to be the problem. we can send them in, they can do their job. the fact of the matter is that the karzai government in afghanistan does not seem to be living up to its half of the bargain. and i was struck this morning by an article which talked about hamid karzai discussing with the taliban and with pakistan about power sharing in afghanistan against the very people who in afghanistan were u.s. allies to begin with. this is so convoluted at this point, it doesn t seem that there s a way out. well, the most challenging
petraeus will. but on the other side, what i think is a more significant and difficult issue is, you have the most corrupt government that we have ever dealt with from a conflict standpoint. until you provide stability and confidence in the afghan people about the way forward from a governing standpoint, then i think that statement probably has some truth to it, that we could win militarily, and still have a very ugly victory. and senator reid, isn t that the problem, the military doesn t seem to be the problem. we send them in and they do their job, but the fact of the matter is, the karzai government in afghanistan does not seem to be living up to its half of the bargain. i was struck this morning by an article which talked about hamid karzi discussing with the taliban and afghanistan talking about power sharing against the