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lots of questions coming your way. we begin with this. when americans especially troops fighting and dying in this war here, general mcchrystal saying nobody is winning. how does that affect the effort, the emotions around all of this for the troops? well, no one should be surprised by that. general mcchrystal is a very precise and careful man and he said back in his initial assessment of the situation in afghanistan last summer that the situation was serious and deteriorating and then in february of this year in fact when we were in istanbul for a defense ministerial he said the situation was still serious but no longer deteriorating. and that is basically where he sees it still now, that it is the taliban s momentum has been stopped. they no longer have the initiative, and what s more important, they no longer have the perception among the afghan people as having the initiative. so we are in a point now where the tide is changing. it s turning. it is moving in our favor. but the

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