about what is success, but the definition would require a permanent presence at a very high level, would it not? even that i m not sure would do it. what we are seeing in afghanistan is we are wearing out the welcome mat. i think success ought to be to give the afghans the chance to look after their own defense mainly so that groups like al qaeda cannot set up shop in afghanistan. we can t define success in terms of what is the nature of afghanistan. we can simply define success that afghanistan is not again used by al qaeda as a platform to kill americans. we need a modest definition of what we can accomplish. if we define success ambitiously, we will fail. when the history of this war is written, how important will that that early-morning hours when the staff sergeant left the base and allegedly killed those civilians? not a lot. it will be a footnote. the larger story will be the united states got ambitious in a part of the world where it should not have. where local cultural
but that story, we re going to try and keep it alive as long as possible until we see what happens. here with us now, time magazine s assistant editor in charge of economics and business, here to reveal the latest issue of time magazine. welcome to the show. and what s the cover? we ve got the wimpy recovery going on. excuse me? well, we what s going on? we all know that we re in an economic recovery. we see the numbers, we see growth ticking up, we hear about it hear about it. but we don t feel it. and that s the point. a lot of people are still out of work. we haven t gotten a raise really since the 1970s if you look at the statistics. and the jobs they are getting are not paying as much. that s right. the top 10 fastest-growing jobs in this country are fairly low-paying jobs. and yet we call it a recovery. well, it technically it s a recovery. and we ve been in it over two
alive. they are trying to get at him and at this point they don t even know where they haven t heard from him for hours. so who knows. but give us the big picture on this story. as gripped as we are in the conversation we just had about trayvon martin in this story, france is gripped by mohammed merah, a french citizen of algerian defense. this is scary for the social fabric of france and potentially scary for the social fabric here. france is a country now of a growing number of muslim citizens of algerian and other descent. and this injects into everyone s mind the idea, oh, that person is arab one way or another, algerian, what have you, might he do something like this? this is the kind of thing that is corrosive to put it bluntly for any society. it s what s happening in france. this is a guy who was radicalized apparently by the internet. he made some trips over to the middle east, to pakistan, what have you. he comes back. and apparently, he does this
mother. i cry every day. there is a hole in my heart because that was my baby. we re following the story. obviously, we ll be following what happens and reverend al will be there. he s been on top of this story almost from the get go. and just going to go there tonight even though his mother passed away this morning, saying his mother would be proud of what he s doing. jonathan capehart, alex just telling me that some of the evidence that police may be referring to are cuts on zimmerman s forehead and his shirt being messed up. a bloody nose and grass stains on his shirt. you know, as the trayvon martin s somebody may have been struggling with him. and we know there was some sort of altercation. you have a 28-year-old man stalking a 17-year-old boy who is coming back with a can of
gun. he was found dead on the ground. while negotiating with police, the 24-year-old man had claimed responsibility for the shooting deaths of three children and a rabbi at a jewish school on monday. he also admitted to killing three french paratroopers last week. so that story still unfolding. the suspect, though, now officially is dead. jeff greenfield, stay with us. up next, a test of presidential power. we re going to talk to former white house adviser dr. zeke emanuel ahead of the supreme court arguments over the nation s health care law. you re watching morning joe brewed by starbucks.