what you could call cruise missile diplomacy, a risky counter terror strategy favored if you remember by his former boss, president obama. bring in former military intelligence analyst, drone expert, bret belovich. bret, thank you for being here. your implications of this strike in afghanistan and how we use drones generally? we have long term mistakes with the strike. mistakes have long term consequences. when i was told when i conduct operations there is major responsible when you conduct all of this. if you have the ability to choose whether someone lives or dies you better be right. the team was completely wrong. the team that conducted this they will have to look for the criteria conducting these strikes in the future. the biden administration will have to look at what is known the signature strikes.
years after 9/11. these kind aare of attacks remind us of the costs and difficulty. what is your opinion of the do you have confidence we can turn a tide in afghanistan? absolutely we can turn the tide in afghanistan. the mission has to be right. for a long time now we have been implementing a counter terrorism strategy. we knead toe shift to a counter terror strategy and go after the enemy. the only patty to victory in afghanistan resides on issuing defeat after defeat to the enemy in afghanistan. you have to destroy them and destroy their will to fight. you know. and also commit to the afghans that we have their backs as well for the long haul. this is a really important war. we have been there for 17 years. we owe it to every single soldier and family member that s been touched by this bar to win. we have a moral obligation to win. otherwise we will have a whole generation of americans wondering what the heck their sacrifice is for. the stakes are high. pete: obligation to win o
movement. continuing to close it our counter terror strategy. there is not a great deof evidence that guantanamo bay is used as recruiting tool for isis. much greater propaganda tool for al qaeda. guantanamo continues to be one of the key magnets for jihadi recruitment. for us to close it, is part of our counter terrorism strategy. a new fox news poll of registered voters shows that 58% of those polled disapprove of the way in which president obama has dealt with isis. 75% say the u.s. has not pursued terrorists here at home aggressive live enough. back to you guys. jennifer griffin in washington. thanks, jennifer. well, wanted this morning, a massive manhunt for america s most wanted teenager, 18 years old. there is a $5,000 renow out for the kid who has been affectionately called the affluenza teen couch.
now, josh what can the united states do in terms of counter terror strategy in yemen? we do continue to be in such with some elements of the yemeni government. that effort at security cooperation is not as robust and as successful as it would otherwise be if the yemeni government were stable. but we still continue to have ties that are important to our security. the united states continues to have resources in the broader region that we can use to strike terrorists if necessary. and the president has indicated a commitment to uses the resources to keep the american people safe. andrea mitchell? this is now a proxy war if you will between the saudis and iran. partisans and now the saudis directly in this. how do you at the same time that we are supporting the saudis against iran in yemen be negotiating in switzerland for a deal with iran on nuclear weapons, which is going to be criticized by the saudis and all of the partners who are fighting the iranians in yemen? you ve got oppo
to take this drawdown seriously and we re going to recalibrate our strategy and move away from a heavy expensive boots on the ground strategy to a counter terror strategy. one heavy on intelligence gathering and targeted response environment and one that does a limited amount of training behind, and one that really addresses significantly 100,000 troops in afghanistan. we have families in this country who have given and given, national guard troops who have given and given thaern loyal and dedicated and want to do the right thing. let s get real about where afghanistan is today, where it s likely to be next year and five years from now. we re not going to change culture. i believe there will be civil war to some extent whether it s this year or whether it s five years from now. i m not sure there s anything we can do about it. what we have done is put ckarza