Still a reliable partner. John or ben hodges welcome to conflict zone thinking shell republican senator bob corker head of the Foreign Relations committee of the u. S. Senate said President Donald Trump threatens other nations in such a way it could lead to with the world war do you agree. Well course as a soldier my job is to make sure that our soldiers are as well prepared as they can be for whatever contingency. Should arise our focus is on deterrence. Working as part of the alliance most successful alliance in the world in the history of the world so but senator bob corker sad if we want to speak more about this vote that the president of the United States is today more a danger than a help for peace i mean again i dont know trump threatens other nations in such a way it could lead to with World War Two you agree with that i think that the president has done everything that the Previous Administration said it was going to do the president and this administration has lived up to eve
Hutchens commander of some thirty thousand u. S. Soldiers in europe with a such controversy in chief in washington many people in europe are wondering is america still a reliable partner. The so john or bernhard as welcome to conflict zone thank you republican senator bob corker the head of the Foreign Relations committee of the u. S. Senate said President Donald Trump threatens other nations in some way it could lead to with the world war do you agree. Well course as a soldier my job is to make sure that our soldiers are as well prepared as they can be for whatever contingency. Should arise our focus is on deterrence. Working as part of the alliance most successful alliance in the world in the history of the world so but senator bob corker said if we want to speak more about this vote that the president of the United States is today more a danger then to hell for peace i mean again i dont know trump threatens other nations in such a way it could lead to a third World War Two you agree
Soldiers in europe with a such controversial come on the in chief in washington many people in europe are wondering is america still a reliable partner. John or ben hodges welcome to conflict zone thank you michel republican senator bob corker the head of the Foreign Relations committee of the u. S. Senate said president try threatens other nations in the way it could lead to with the world war do you agree. Well course as a soldier my job is to make sure that our soldiers are as well prepared as they can be for whatever contingency. Should arise our focus is on deterrence. Working as part of the alliance most successful alliance in the world in the history of the world so but senator bob corker said if we want to speak more about this vote that the president of the United States is today more a danger than a help for peace i mean again i dont know trump threatens other nations in such a way it could lead to a third World War Two you agree with that i think that the president has done
And we will be talking politics. Will you be doing it during this thanksgiving holiday . All coming up on washington journal. You can send us a tweet. Good morning. We begin with afghanistan. American troops on the ground in what has become americas longest war. Joining us live is brig. Gen. William graham. Thank you for being with us on this holiday. Thanks for having us. Happy thanksgiving to you and all your viewers. Host he is joining us via skype. So there is a little bit of a delay. Lets begin with what is americas longest war. From your standpoint what are some of the Biggest Challenges on the ground . Guest in just a minute and we will get that out of the way. This is my second tour in afghanistan and what i will noisywith you as another helicopter flies past is that there is optimism here with the Afghan People. The new u. S. Policy and its our nato allies is playing well with afghanistan. There is true optimism here. By someed here today amazing american patriots. You guys ha
Increased focus on exercises that we have seen over the recent weeks and months as an effort to try to boost the effect of deterrent along with the diplomatic overtures that secretary of state tillerson has undertaken. Afghanistan, the same goal but different strategies under president s bush, obama and trump. As the current strategy working from your standpoint . Guest we have 4000 plus troops and i think we will see if that many surge many more were added in the obama administration. We will see that many surge has the desired effect. There is an effort to double the Afghan Special Operations Forces which i have observed over many and also to double or triple their air capacity and thats a very difficult thing, the air capacity. Because you have to have englishspeaking pilots. All of this is really longterm andlopmental efforts happening at the same time to the taliban of course has madeased its attacks and some major gains around the countryside. It is fair with all of this discussi