much money as he can? well, you know, i was talking to the general who runs an area in the north there and he said why are the americans letting the communists in. hamid karzai is signing deals to protect afghanistan. he wants us to protect them and let other people grab all the wealth that is still to be tapped. shepard: there has never been any real indication the afghan forces were able to do much of anything. fewer than 5% of people with read or write. i was told that the afghan forces trained by the russians were better are trained on the afghan forces they have now. they are very good but they don t have air support and we have to provide all of the major intel and observation and air lift and logistics that they need to fight the taliban.
shepard: to what end? i really don t know. hamid karzai is doubling down on the taliban and that means the south will love it but the north will not be very happy. shepard: robert young peloton in san diego with the broken record story of afghanistan. thank you. the first witnesses took the stand today in the case of the colorado movie theater shooting. prosecutors warned the victims and families that the dramatic testimony might be too much for them to bear. in fact, two police officers broke down in tears today as they described what they encountered at the theater. details next. recent shooting rampages have high profile lawmakers demanding a crackdown on who can own guns once and for all. that is coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. [ lisa ] my name s lisa, and chantix helped me quit.
are busy putting them in jail. he knows he will not get the north so he decided to bring the taliban back into the government. these things won t be discussed too openly as he begs president obama to keep troops there and i think he will have to relent on the u.s. troops being is subject to afghan law because we will just pull out of there. shepard: the goal has been the most recent goal in a series of goals in afghanistan has been to put afghan security forces back in charge of things. you have are been over there for five weeks looking at it. how is that going? very badly. the army and the police are one of the main problems they have because they are causing problems in the more remote regions. when i was there we had a group of u.s. trained afghan police battling u.s. trained afghan military. so the first steps of the civil war are beginning and happening with those type of troops. shepard: pakistan, china and iran will play major roles over there you said. his goal now is ju
in that capacity. shepard: james rosen, thank you. the afghan president hamid karzai is set to is sit down with president obama in washington this week. according to the analysts the biggest topic of discussion will likely be the u.s. force that remains inside afghanistan after the military starts its drawdown next year. the afghan president has insistd that all remaining american soldiers should follow afghan law while president obama has called that a deal breaker and for are any potential security agreement. robert young peloton is with us. he has just come back from afghanistan. he is an author and filmmaker. he was spending weeks with u.s. special forces hunting taliban militants. good afternoon. hi, how are you doing? shepard: he blames us for everything. why in the world would the president talk to him? you have to watch his game. he is looking forward to releasing all of the 3,000 or so prisoners while u.s. forces
filmmaker michael moore s documentary fahrenheit. mr. wolfowitz primping himself for the tv cameras. mr. wolfowitz all smiles as he heads up the bush administration selling the iraq war the guy wh forever changed the way you think about harmless black little haircombs, he s known around here as mr. wrong. wrong as in wrong. wrong about everything. the more important the task and the lead-up in execution of the bush administration s wars, the more likely he was wrong about it. here he was addressing the american public two months into the war in afghanistan. the american people have to be prepared for the fact that we may be hunting taliban and al qaeda in afghanistan months from now. months from now, huh? that was in 2001. he was wrong there by more than 100 months and counting. that did not stop him from making bold proclamations about this one about the bush administration s next big war in