outside of kabul. if you look at the next two years, it doesn t suggest there s a commitment to success in afghanistan, which the president laid out in december of 2009. i think this is an incredibly short sighted move for a president who made the argue that this was the good war. this was the crucial war. we had to win it. it s far from clear that we re winning it. we ve had some success i think it s fair to say, sense the surge, despite the fact that the president announced the surgery and withdrawal in the same speech. we ve had some limited success in the south and elsewhere and not as much in the east. but what the president is announcing today seems altogether too clever, too cute by half, trying to make a political argument or a public relations play when we should be talking about war and peace. but, charles, even the political argument seems to fall short because much of the politics here seems to indicate that america would like all our
before. it was the first trick shot taken to absolutely perfection. in december of 2009 the dudes launch the clip under the title world s longest basketball shot. i made it. it spreads like wildfire racking up more than 2 million hits in just two hours and becomes one of the most viewed videos of the year. it s one of the repeatable clips. it s got a little suspense, and a great ending. this is a nice, simple, visual representation of achieving something nearly impossible. but many viewers believe the shot is impossible. online skeptics rigorously debate the video s authenticity. crazy ideas about how we strung a string up from the basketball down to the stadium. another guy thought we used some kind of homing device on the basketball. magnetism. magnet in the goal and magnet in the ball. we don t mind that people accuse it of being fake because it s just a statement about how
handlers. an individual has greed agreed to meet with me. why didn t you say what you knew at the start? . the risk to bob. i didn t know what the risk would be. we were told by the u.s. government by revealing what he was doing over there would have been harmful to his safety. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. the levinson family is not alone when it comes to a family member being held overseas. bay was detained in north korea in november, 2o 12. they sentenced him to 12 years of hard labor for committing hostile acts against the state. alan gross has been in custody since december of 2009. authorities say he tried to set up illegal internet connections. the family of the only american prisoner of war in afghanistan got proof from the u.s. military that he is still alive. he was taken captive and
afghanistan. but the other thing is, in 2009, a year-long process that culminated in the president s speech, describing his afghanistan policy in december of 2009, and in fact, the president following precisely the policy that he outlined in 2009, which had a surge in troops for a limited period of time. the military didn t like that. it was the time limit that they didn t like. the reason for that was very simple. in the assessment of the administration coming into office in 2009, we understood that ultimately, in what became the war against al qaeda, that afghanistan was important, but pakistan was strategic. and so, we re waging a war in 2009 that wasn t necessarily focused on the major threat, and the discovery of bin laden in 2010 and pakistan reinforces that. and you mentioned bin laden, because colonel jack, gates book does say that the decision
took my breath away. we were really freaking out. nobody had ever made a basketball shot from that far before. it was the first trick shot taken to absolutely perfection. in december of 2009 the dudes launch the clip under the title words longest basketball shot. i made it. it spreads like wildfire racking up more than 2 million hits in just two hours and becomes one of the most viewed videos of the year. it s one of the repeatable clips. it s got a lot of suspense. this is a nice, simple, visual representation of achieving something nearly impossible. but many viewers believe the shot is impossible. online skeptics rigorously