he thought that pakistan, if they did not come to an understanding of the situation and they need to be on site, from their own self-interest, we could force them into the first and leading descent was one on prejudging what the president should do in july. we should not be in it the business of prejudging what the president does or does not do. that is fair up two. , but we are watching this, and there is a question as to how sustainable this is. former senior officer in that part of the world, i gather that you have fundamental questions about the viability of what we are doing in afghanistan. perhaps you could lay those out. i do have very serious reservations particularly about the sustainability of what we are doing. it comes down to a point that mr. arledge made very eloquently, and that has to do with sustainability both on the u.s. and the afghan side. focusing on the karzai government, particularly the afghan national army, for the reasons that mr. arledge p
passed that health care reform. he s just not going to do it. he s got to come up with some reason and the reason is a messaging. i think i might move to foreign policy only because there s 50,000 troops still sitting in iraq. whether or not that constitutes a withdrawal, and i would push of a little on the deadline for next june, the time to do that will be after december when the report put a report out there. but i think there have been certain signals inside the white house and certainly from the military that perhaps that whole is beginning to draw down, may not work as well as they thought it would even though they remain publicly [inaudible] the left the democratic party, and does he risk an antiwar candidate running for the nomination, even if it s a symbolic candidate. another question, does he think hillary will run? [laughter] i would wonder whether he still believed that the american people want transformational change. i think point you brought up, john
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you change your mind. and in this case these guys came home and they were supposed to go back to that think that disembarkation point with summer in seattle may be. and they won t allow it to go on leave to see their families as they were afraid people would run away. so i think it s tremendous and these people, the young people who come back when they re doing that have a lot of profound problems. i think it s also to keep in mind it s not just young people. that s true. one of the folks i was activated with, we celebrated his 63rd day right before they shipped them off to iraq. well. back to ron s question rogers questioned enron s comments. i think it goes back to what we were talking about earlier, we re listening is very important and inside of us imposing a label, you re a hero, you re a villain, whichever label. instead of us imposing knights, hearing the story and letting that person tell the story that were looking for strategy, a better strategy in terms
that will could cost him potentially, at least, a second term. and who says you can t go home again. we re going to revisit the place in indonesia where mr. obama lived as a young boy hours before he gets there. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. president obama is going to go to new lengths to strengthen ties with india to convince americans that the growing economic power house is not stealing american jobs. the president wrapped up a trip to india with a state dinner, a speech to parliament, and a joint news conference with the prime minister. he tried to address worries back here at home about outsourcing, kri citing new trade deals saying it will create thousands of well paying jobs for u.s. workers. when i go back home to the united states, part of the reason i advertise the 50,000 jobs i wanted to be able to say to the american people, hen they asked me, well, why are you spending time with india, aren t they taking our jobs? i want to say, they ju