so while it s never pleasant to have a foreign force in your country, an armed force, in this case it s really important and central to keeping president karzai and his government in power. jon: we just had some footage there of general petraeus meeting with hamid karzai. if you re general petraeus and you re trying, you know, you re trying to prosecute this war, trying to get this country stabilized, pull it out of the eighth century and bring it into, you know, the modern era, what does that do to you to hear this kind of criticism from the president of that country? well, i think it undermines your efforts to some extent but, again, i would say that it s the private conversations that go on between general petraeus and president karzai that are important. not some of the public utterings. and everything that i hear is that, you know, there s great afghan support for what general petraeus is doing. in fact, a lot of president
the dutch prime minister sunday morning talk shows insifrted the country would not be blackmailed. meanwhile turkey s president said the netherlands was fascist and racist and this was all a dangerous game of election politics. take a listen to what both leaders have to say. translator: if you sacrifice turkish and dutch relations that will be held on wednesday, you will pay the price. you will pay the price. we haven t started to take the necessary steps yet. we are absolutely willing to de-escalate of course these utterings of the turkish president do not help and they are completely unacceptable. reporter: it may not end with the netherlands. denmark will now postpone the visit by the turkish prime minister precisely because of rising tensions. of course this all happens just three days before the elections in the netherlands. we ll have to wait till wednesday to find out how this fared in the minds of voters. atika shoe bert, rotter dam. a far right dutch politician