david, we have a very good cooperation with the government of afghanistan to work at the challenges we have here of helping to build a capable government. this is a hard task and my role here as united states ambassador is to take forward the president s strategy here. we ve got a very clear strategy, david. we ve got for the first time we ve got the proper resources. we ve got an array of good programs here in working with the afghan government and law enforcement, their judicial sector and we remain cautiously optimistic about our ability to make progress. during our visit with general petraeus, he focused on examples of that progress. security gains in the center of the country. you can see again the construction going on here.
havens and reduce their freedom of action, they will fight back. in the face of the tough fighting, however, we must remember that progress is possible in afghanistan because we have already seen a fair amount of it in a variety of different forms beyond the recent security gains. for example, nearly 7 million afghan children are now in school as opposed to less than 1 million a decade ago. immunization rates for children have gone up substantially and are now in the 70 to 90% range nationwide. cell phones are everywhere in a country that had none during the taliban days, though the taliban does try to shut down some of those towers at night and does it as well. kabul is a bustling, busy city as are other cities. roads and bridges and other intrastructures that been built.
remember that progress is possible in afghanistan, because we have already seen a fair amount of it, in a variety of different forms beyond the recent security gains. for example, nearly 7 million afghan children are now in school, as opposed to less than 1 million a decade ago under taliban control. immunization rates for children have gone up substantially and are now in the 70 to 90% range nationwide and cell phones are ubiquitous in a nation where during the taliban days they were nonexistent, though the taliban tries to shut down them, ha lat, jalalabad, infrastructure has been repaired and built and commerce is returning to hill man ore isaf and afghan forces are present. even in places where governance remains weak, innovative efforts like the afghan government s national solidarity program supported by american and
fighting, however, we must remember that progress is possible in afghanistan because we have already seen a fair amount of it in a variety of different forms beyond the recent security gains. for example, nearly 7 million afghan children are now in school as opposed to less than 1 million a decade ago under taliban control. immunization rates for children have gone up substantially and are now in the 70% to 90% range nationwide. cell phones are ubiquitous in a country that virtually had none during the taliban days though the taliban does try to shut down some of those towers at night, and does it, as well. kabul is a bustling busy city as juloll bad. roads and bridges and other structures have been built or rebuilt. even in places where governance remains weak, innovative efforts like the afghan government s national solidarity program
tensions as much as possible, and as the various blocs are trying to form coalitions to lead the government, they were conducting attacks to enflame sectarian violence and alter the outcomes of negotiations. and have this set of very good security gains is important for maliki who s attempting to forge a coalition right now. the reason is he s basically run on a platform that brought security to a war-torn iraq back in 2006 and 7. jane: lieutenant james stanley, thanks for your thoughts. thank you. jon: let s take you to capitol hill where right now a house committee is digging into what led to the lehman prepares collapse. the investment bank s former chief executive telling his story to the house financial services committee. our jenna lee joins us from the fox business network to tell us who s there and what it means to the rest of us. jenna: the big question right now, jon, is who exactly was minding the store here? this is one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in our