bin laden to the pakistanis he will be gone and they won t take him out of there. when it was brought up, should we do a joint pop with the pakistanis? it was laughable. it is crazy to think about. secret helicopters. why do we support a country like this, has to be supercomplicated. we have been working with pakistan and afghanistan since helping the afghan mujahedin fighters, to fight the russians, because pakistan closed the port of karachi and control everything over there and
support for them then we should attack them in terms of their leadership much as we are doing with the al-qaeda who are not that far from where the sanctuaries are. we yours go covert drone attacks. otherwise the future stability of pakistan will be at risk. heather: what about the move to reopen the supply route. it s been shut down after pakistani troops were killed back in november. how will that help the movement forward in terms of stabilization? that is clearly a shorter route we used and less expensive for us to do that. when we start to retrograde our equipment out of afghanistan it s much easier to go through the kyber pass, go through pakistan to the port of karachi than it is to take the northern route. we can do that, of course, if we had to but it s much more expensive to do that.
but in addition, were it not for our can t to take our logistics thus the port of karachi, on a 1,000-mile run through the khyber pass we could not for 90 days support 150,000 nato troops 800 miles from the sea. so pakistan is absolutely primary to our ability to continue this struggle. i think looking forward in afghanistan, there may well be an impact on al qaeda s ability to recruit and retain. i m not sure. i don t believe it s going to have a significant role on what s going on inside afghanistan to the extent that this is a tribal war of the pasch tuns against the rest of them. i think the war will continue,
along the afghan/pakistani border. gunmen torching dozens of tankers in seven separate attacks depriving combat forces of their supplies. richard lui is here with a much better look at how this block aid is impacting u.s. troops and that is really the key question here, lui. 150,000 some odd troops from the nato forces and of that there are about 90,000 u.s. troops and i ll show you what that looks like on this map. 90,000 u.s. troops that are now stationed there. afghanistan is land locked. that s the challenge getting in the supplies from the arabian sea or caspian sea. the major crossings are up here in the north and in the south and that s chamin. 70% of all supplies go through that route. through the port of karachi. that is about a 24-hour drive, that is about a 1,200 mile