honor that sacrifice. i think that america wants to honor that sacrifice also in the way that we do that is by focusing our resources and power towards securing america and the things that make this country great, prosperity, not by muddling along with other strategy, a coherent strategy in afghanistan. martha: does that mean potentially staying there and making sure that it is not that it doesn t ever become a haven essentially the idea that if we pull out the taliban is going to eventually knock over that very fragile government and be basically where they were on 9/11. i think the answer to that is based on the question of what our american s interests in this situation, like amber said, i think that we accomplished what we set out to do long ago. we decimated al qaeda, we punished the taliban for punishing al qaeda and we killed osama bin laden and those of the things that we set up to do and we ve done it long ago.
with no clear end state where our strategy just seems to be mud willing muddling along. i actually served as a marine prior to going to rack, biraq, need to focus on the policy and i think president trump needs to focus and get out. and while politics doesn t matter, it s not the most political thing. but politically it would be advantageous for him. in polling that s been done, it shows that overwhelmingly, as you said, the american people want to get out of afghanistan. that s what president trump should do. but i can just say that, i mean, we are all exhausted from this war. we are all exhausted. i think that is bipartisan and universal. this is america s longest war. but have we really achieved our targets? the taliban today control more territory in afghanistan than they did at the start of the u.s. invasion. so i think just like think we are all exhausted of this war, but i highly doubt that trump is
with tax cuts and regulation roll backs would achieve. this is looking like a stable muddling through economy, not the super charged gangbusters economy the president has promised. christine, thank you. let s turn to the race for 2020, the cnn debate is a few days away, the candidates are tauting their new policies. half the field is swinging through iowa where the first caucuses will be held in 191 days. we re counting, don t worry, you don t have to. the other half making appearances at the national urban league s annual conference in indianapolis. mayor pete buttigieg are among the speakers this morning. harris and buttigieg both releasing big policy plans. harris plan includes closing the wealth gap among black americans by investing $60 million in stem education at historically black colleges and universities. she was challenged on her record
in many cases especially in afghanistan there s not a clear end state. not a clear goal. we re muddling along. it s fundamentally wrong to ask american troops, american marines, sailors, soldiers to put their lives on the line without a clear end state. so dan brought up syria. i m curious what your thoughts are when it comes to syria. obviously, the goal in taking 2,500 to 4,000 troops over there was to stop the spread of russia s influence, iran s influence, assad s influence through parts of that region. does your organization oppose troops in syria with those stated goals? you don t have to go to a fancy university in the u.n. ni states. all you have to do is go to syria. i was an embedded adviser on the
that, you know, michter s is a high end product. we just had a bottle sell at an auction in london for $17,000. so a lot of demand a broad. yeah. so some distillers have been hurt. we talked to them this morning that have been hurt. others are muddling through. nobody blaming the president. sometimes you have to have tough negotiati negotiation. thanks. dana: yes, they recognize that. and curious, do they sell a lot during the holiday? good question. joe, obviously, holidays. give me your sense of the economy and sales over the holidays? what do you think? we re anticipating a pretty good holiday season. i want to show dana what a bottle of $17,000 that is a lot you re a strong man. that one is a lot like the one