afghan police pa control and afghan army units take the lead in most combat operations. but high tech, logistics, medical capabilities are inadequate to counter insurgency tasks. they will benefit from hardware the u.s. is not shipping state side. we want to push them as hard as we can to be ready end of next year, recognize we re not going to get to the finish line in each and every area. reporter: also complicating counter narcotics effort of the special mission wing are flourishing poppy fields, which reclaimed its position as the leading producer and cultivator of opium. thank you. a house committee tells an irs manager she can t have her fifth amendment cake and eat it, too. the fox all stars will react when we return.
it s a trip designed to make him look presidential, but the headlines mitt romney is generating in london would make any white house cringe. his campaign is doing damage control after british news media seized on a remark romney made questioning london s readiness for the olympics. cnn national correspondent jim acosta is in london for us. jim, what s happening now with mitt romney? reporter: candy, mitt romney woke up to headlines he did not anticipate when he embarked on this overseas trip. but his campaign is confident he can clear the next hurdles ahead. mitt romney hit the reset button on his overseas charm offensive during his lone public meeting of the day in london he was asked by the leader of ireland about how he had to walk to the irish embassy due to the city s intense pre-olympic traffic. romney s response. romney is walking on egg shells and eager to please after he was blasted by british leaders for appearing to question london s readiness to host the olympic
ending corruption, killing off the poppy fields and not becoming a source of drugs to the world. at some point it becomes their destiny to control and design. in iraq, once we left, it s up to the iraqis to figure out. it s a little choppy and uneasy, but our birth was a little choppy for a couple hundred years. you just have to let them go, be there to give support, give advise. give some assistance, but it s time to bring our active duty soldiers home. they ve been at this for ten straight years and the reservists. and the reservists and the tempo of these repeated tours of duty have been so burdensome for the troops, for the families at home and for the nation of course, economically. you write before we invaded iraq, we should have listened to more people with ground troop experience in the region. these people were out there and fewer idea heavy big egos in washington.
target. the men and women of the dea realize that the stakes are high here in afghanistan. we take this seriously. we are here to assist our u.s. troops in every way we can. we feel by every operation that we go out and are successful we are taking money from the taliban. once onsite the agents and special operators head uphill to the objective. we have the confidential source that is with us. he s someone that has details of the organization. he s able to lead us into the area where all the drugs, chemicals taliban purport to be a deeply religious organization. today they are supported by the opium trade, cutting their financial links the mission of the dea and these special operators. this compound is on a line from the poppy fields of the province into taliban controlled pakistan.
high here in afghanistan. we take this seriously. we are here to assist our u.s. troops in every way we can. we feel by every operation that we go out and are successful we are taking money from the taliban. once onsite the agents and special operators head uphill to the objective. we have the confidential source that is with us. he s someone that has details of the organization. he s able to lead us into the area where all the drugs, chemicals taliban purport to be a deeply religious organization. today they are supported by the opium trade, cutting their financial links the mission of the dea and these special operators. this compound is on a line from the poppy fields of the province into taliban controlled pakistan. this is used to take the opium, turn it into heroin.