it s not going to be as, i think, robust as i think many would like but the direction is going to be set and it s going to be firm. the president has done the same thing in iraq. he said on the campaign trail and he was it was out of the debate that he was going to start to withdraw. that withdraw is well under way and headed in the right direction. the question i think in a year from now i think that we ll see that shift. i think that we ll see more activity by the afghan national security forces. i think that you ll also see a continuing very robust counterterrorism effort by the united states. and that ll be our special forces operations. well, right now we ve got a brand-new poll, senator, washington post /abc poll joining our other poll that says that 60% of the americans believe the war in afghanistan, a tough assessment, is not worth fighting. 27% want to draw out even sooner than that. i guess the question that liberals and progressives will ask, is it going to be a rapid
well, first thing i would say is we re there because that s where al qaeda mounted their attacks against the united states. we have a real mission there. it s continuing. second, we re going to begin withdrawal. it s not going to be as, i think, robust as i think many would like but the direction is going to be set and it s going to be firm. the president has done the same thing in iraq. he said on the campaign trail and he was it was out of the debate that he was going to start to withdraw. that withdraw is well under way and headed in the right direction. the question i think in a year from now i think that we ll see that shift. i think that we ll see more activity by the afghan national security forces. i think that you ll also see a continuing very robust counterterrorism effort by the united states. and that ll be our special forces operations. well, right now we ve got a brand-new poll, senator, washington post /abc poll joining our other poll that says that 60% of the ame
what would you tell them it would look like a year two from now? would we have 50,000 troops? way less than now? if we were there because that s where al-qaeda mounted their attack, we have a real mission there. it s continuing. second, we re going to begin withdrawal. it s not going to be as robust as many would like, but the direction is going to be set and firm. the president has done the same thing in iraq. he said on the campaign trail and he was part of the debate, that he was going to start the withdrawal. the question i think is in a year from you, i think we ll see is that shift. i think we ll see more activity by the afghan national security forces. i think you ll also see a continuing very robust counterterrorism effort by the united states. right now, we ve got a new
so that s going to involve a lot of pouring through information, intelligence gathering, social media, known contacts. they ll put up a whole, you know board with everybody s, like, face, name, whereabouts, etc., to make sure and then they have to start flipping people and bringing them in and questioning them and gathering information because it s a race against, you know, the clock here to try to identify the individual. jesse: absolutely. lisa, what do you think? alicia: i think lisa, i think they talked about intelligence sharing and the importance of intelligence sharing among the g7 members. this was something discussed with nato as well in sort of leading this new counterterrorism effort, so you put that at the emphasis, they re really underscoring some of the problems we re having in the united states with these leaks. and the fact that this hurts a relationship with other countries at the this critical juncture where we have the same common goal of fighting terrorism. th