game? let s bring in michael pillsbury, senior fellow at hudson institute and author of book the 100-year their mono. marathon. michael, thanks very much, indeed, for joining us. thanks. gerry: a lot of sound and tour fury around speaker pelosi s itinerary. did this visit achieve anything? well, it achieved a lot, but a lot depends on what nancy pelosi does when she gets home to washington. she refused to join a series of republican initiatives including a task force to deal with china. she s kind of cold shoulderedded any cooperation across a broad range of issues. so if she changes that approach when she gets back, then trip will have had a huge impact probably on her. as you know, she was quite the china hawk back in the 90s, demonstrating in beijing on behalf of tiananmen students who were killed, doing a whole series of things to hurt china badly. she then shifted over to a more moderate view, and if she shifts back now to how she was in the 1990s, that will b
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groups, the safe haven, al-qaeda had this before 9/11. and keep in mind, afghanistan wasn t even fully controlled nor did it have all the functioning apparatus of a state. taliban fully controls afghanistan today. again, it has u.s. weapons left behind, training, you know, les training camps, its relationship with the taliban is even stronger. and the u.s. ability to strike inside of a afghanistan, it s a far more difficult situation today the than it was pre-9/11. and it isn t only place where al-qaeda and groups like these have safe haven. so the threat posed safe haven that it allows these terror groups to do is to train, to regroup, their leadership can get together, they can finance, and they choose to execute and then the bigger issue which is a bigger threat because it increases possibility of safe haven, is al-qaeda s caliphate-building project.
what are your thoughts on what you are seeing in libya? well a tipping point has been reached that regime is crumbling as we are speaking. it doesn t mean it is fully over yet. there may be some patterns, pockets of resistance, that could be quite bloody in the next few hours or days. but it seems to me, it is pretty clear what will take place from this point forward. i think the real challenge now, chris, is what comes next. is there an ability to put together a functioning apparatus, a bureaucracy, in the short term can there be any kind of resolution between the tribes and the tribal society, to try and come to some kind of a consensus on how to go forward from this point forward, there are many people who are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. that has been interrupted.