not that it wasn t a worthy mission, but its doability in the context of the horrible setbacks. we have the people urinating on the dead taliban. you have the kill team. you have the koran burning. now we have had this. can we still win the minds and hearts as in-country allies of the government? that may be too ambitious, chris. i m not going to claim we can do that. i would point out the iraqis were much angrier with us. they still put us in the 50% favorability range. that s not nearly what it was in 2001 and 2002 when they loved us, but there is a certain amount of common interest as well above and beyond whatever affection is still there. i think the afghans know they have pakistan to the east. 180 million people nuclearly armed. also doing nasty things inside their own territory. they are a little more afraid of being left alone, i think, than
doable. and that s my question. not that it wasn t a worthy mission, but its doability in the context of these horrible setbacks morally. we have the people urinating on those dead taliban. you have the kill team. you have the koran burning, and now you have this. can we still win the minds and hearts as in country allies of the government? that may be too ambitious, chris. and i m not going to claim we can do that. i would point out the iraqis are much more angry with us, and we rated much more lower among the iraqis in 07/ 08. who still put us up in the 40%, 50% favorability range. that s not nearly what it was in 2001/2002 when they loved us, but there is a certain amount of common interest as well, above and beyond whatever residual affection is still there. and i think the afghans know, listen, they ve got pakistan to their east, 180 million people, nuclear armed, far bigger than they are, and also doing some
risk these days. you have to get up to speed with the internet. you sound like an old fogey. my rotary phone will be worth a lot one day. neil: thanks, charles, a busy day for the treasury secretary. a meeting with his counter part from candy meeting with the treasury here in d.c. before he had a chance to sit down with the canadian money guy, he sat down with the fbn money guy, one of them at least. a chat that we had a chance to get into what the president got into last night and of course it had to do with the doability of everything this president wants to get accomplished within the next few months. take a look. neil: after the president s speech, a lot more people seem to be confident judging from the market reaction that he will get a lot of what he wants done. do you think he will? absolutely. i think he s committed to it. i think he s going to deliver on it.