bombers launched an early morning atake in the iraqi city of mosle. the police chief was killed while he slept on the couch. insurgent had tried to kill him five times before. government corruption is so wide spread in afghanistan u.s. officials are coming up with new ways to track it doug mcelway that makes winning the political battle difficult as winning the military fight. in 2004, a joint session of congress with a standing ovation and u.s. intelligence found hamid karzai to be a perveyor in corruption so fast it affects all levels of afghanistan society, from his family and strav and down to the lowest tribal leaders. it is all cataloged in the malign actor s network.
bombers launched an early morning atake in the iraqi city of mosle. the police chief was killed while he slept on the couch. insurgent had tried to kill him five times before. government corruption is so wide spread in afghanistan u.s. officials are coming up with new ways to track it doug mcelway that makes winning the political battle difficult as winning the military fight. in 2004, a joint session of congress with a standing ovation and u.s. intelligence found hamid karzai to be a perveyor in corruption so fast it affects all levels of afghanistan society, from his family and strav and down to the lowest tribal leaders. it is all cataloged in the malign actor s network.
in iraq, the war plan is to hang on and to continue to draw down troop levels. june was the costliest month of the afghan war. 60 american troops were killed. now a new commander is in charge of u.s. forces in afghanistan. of course, general david petraeus tasked with securing victory in america s longest war. can the american military fight, fight and win both wars in afghanistan and iraq at the same time? is their exit strategy realistic for both theaters? over the weekend vice president biden invited u.s. troops and iraqi politicians and talked about the plans for iraq. so, this is not like in august we go, boom. we have now gone down to 50,000. joining us at msnbc headquarters retired arn are army colonel jack jacobs. good morning.
the tempo on all of these operations and by having blustering remarks, it puts the initiative on the part of the other side, kim jong-un. the united states is going to need many, many allies and not only is it continuing to insult north korea, but the insult as jennifer just said to our allies and to a degree, japan and also to china and russia are involved in this and they re all members of the six-party talks when we were talking to north korea. diplomacy has got to come first. i think steve would join me in saying this is not a military fight we want as the secretary said earlier, we ll take it on if north korea would threaten the united states and we have to get diplomacy on this first in order to try to tamp this down and as jennifer just said, we re allowing others to take the initiative especially north
north korea continues to pose. what keeps you up at night? nothing, i keep people up at night. it gives us the confidence that we can fight this battle, but he says combat one north korea would be catastrophic. kennedy: et al. s arguments that we have in this country during world war ii. a war with north korea will be more traditional than the ones we ve seen our military fight over the last 16 years. they ve been more dispersed and this would be more concentrated which means you have much, much higher casualties and you ve also got a regime that doesn t seem to have much concern for its own people. the death toll in north korea alone would be so catastrophic and so high they would also show why general matas has that