Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist, Fox News Contributor and author of the bestselling book things that matter which has now sold more than a million copies. Charles, thats the question. Just to go through it, youve got 55 of the American People saying he has not been aggressive enough. 64 saying we have no strategy. And now the biggest number, 52 , the most critical saying they now favor Ground Troops in this conflict. So are Ground Troops coming . No, i dont think so. I would trust every other one of those numbers in the polls. I think americans are exactly right. Air power will not be enough. Obama does not have the strategy. I think threequarters of americans in the poll think obama has not been tough enough with muslim extremism. Ohm wont even call it by its name. But when it comes to Ground Troops and support for that is a very afemoral number. Thats a number before anybodys committed to the ground. That is a number when america has not yet sustained so much as a sprained ankle
Krauthammer, a syndicated columnist, Fox News Contributor and author of the bestselling book things that matter which has now sold more than a million copies. Charles, thats the question. Just to go through it, youve got 55 of the American People saying he has not been aggressive enough. 64 saying we have no strategy. And now the biggest number, 52 , the most critical saying they now favor Ground Troops in this conflict. So are Ground Troops coming . No, i dont think so. I would trust every other one of those numbers in the polls. I think americans are exactly right. Air power will not be enough. Obama does not have the strategy. I think threequarters of americans in the poll think obama has not been tough enough with muslim extremism. Ohm wont even call it by its name. But when it comes to Ground Troops and support for that is a very afemoral number. Thats a number before anybodys committed to the ground. That is a number when america has not yet sustained so much as a sprained ankle
Other side. Thanks for joining us. Barack obama has a couple of tough years ahead of him as voters took out the anger on the status quo on his fellow democrats. Tuesdays elections gave the democrats the upper hand for the First Time Since 2006. Leaders say they will look for Common Ground and republicans say theyre eager to get to work on what they see as the Biggest Challenges ahead. Some of the message also is a message that the American Public is tired of gridlock, theyre ready to see something happen and i want to be part of that. The American People put a stop sign out in front of the oval office. The president obviously cant see it. So i dont say this as people in america becoming republican. I see this as telling the president stop, reconsider where youre going. Theres such anxiety in the country about whats happened in washington and how things just havent gotten done. And i think what they were doing with governors was rewarding the governors they believe get their job done an
Military attacks on their tribal areas along the border. The good news and its very little good news it may be over. The taliban said they sent six attackers in. An hour ago we got word that six had been killed. Katy tur is tracking this for us from london. Richard engel has lived in the region for nearly two decades. Hes our chief Foreign Correspondent. Katy, lets start with you. Can you give us the latest details on the attack . Well heres what we know as of now. The attack on pakistani officials is what theyre saying now six terrorists are dead. That could be all of them. But they are going room to room to clear the situation. Its a slow and meticulous operation. There are reports that the rooms have been booby trapped. As for the dead its a staggering number. 135. Most of them are children. Another 150 injured. But again this is a fluid situation. The numbers have been changing all day. The gunman went in wearing suicide vests and went classroom to classroom, shooting some students
One pilot killed, the other seriously injured after he managed to open his parachute. Investigators will try to figure out what happened. We have more from tom foreman. Ground control lost contact around 10 00 pacific time. The half billion dollar rocket craft could seat six passengers. During the test flight, two pilots on board. The spaceship is carried beneath the airplane. There was a huge explosion. It didnt occur. I didnt see it. Reporter the company says the mission was going as planned. They were trying a new rocket fuel mix there were no signs of trouble until the massive failure. Flying a rocket loader today that had been thoroughly tested on the ground and through a qualification series. Reporter what went wrong is anyones guess. The ship is designed to fly 62 miles above the earth. The wreckage a problem. Authorities say one pilot was killed and the other seriously injured. Its a large area. The aircraft is in several different pieces. We found one person who obviously was