ironic. he would become the leader of this given 25 years ago meteron kept us from flying f 111s ichl told there are french special operations guys on the ground to support that movement steve just talked about. it would be ironic if it turns out muammar gaddafi goes on the anniversary, the 14th of april of the day we ve attacked them 25 years ago. this is building up. admiral sestak are you worried? b.what follows gaddafi? we don t know who these rebels are. my time at the national security council like oliver north with reagan, mine with clinton, then 31 years in the military. a lesson i learned is that our military often can stop a problem. but it s less rare it fixes a
are we going to have 6,000 troops? 3,000 troops five years from now. we don t have to be there en masse. if they re tribal, we need to have a small element of special operations guys who are the biggest and baddest tribe to go in there and make sure al qaeda does not re-establish a foothold. we have achieved the fact that there s been no new attacks from afghanistan and the taliban are there now, they re from there. the al qaeda guys are gone. they re in pakistan. when you start focusing more on pakistan, you ll be effective. i know you and organizations you are help leaded have catapulted obama into office. is that base really to revolt against obama if you don t see the kind of substantial withdrawals coming when the supposed deadline in july is meant to be? yeah, there s going to be
interestingly, the president did not at any time mention pakistan. that s a significant part of the equation, of course. the surge is proceeding at pace and we are starting to see the impact of that. thousand strikes soreys attacks by our for sees attacks by our forces for october, high value targets taken out, special operations guys are working every night to make that happen. you are seeing other impacts. you are seeing the abrams tank introduced in theater that will have an impact. i think you are also seeing there was an agreement forged between the united states, the forces in pakistan to allow more cia agents into that
bill: are you saying are, colonel shafer that the special forces are going across the border into afghanistan to assassinate or capture these guys? i m saying it is necessary if we are going to be victorious. bill: are you saying they are doing it? i don t know all the details. i was talking to some friends at cencom and there is debate and how to go about implementing the program. bill: you can have the program all you want, kill capture but you are not going to kill and capture if you don t go where they are. are they going into pakistan now, i think they are. there is drones going across the border and special operations guys and special forces. people are saying across border more of the national intelligence agency and cia and more of the operation of tear one. bill: that is unbelievably dangerous, though. they are the best. bill: you can buy these people as you mentioned as they
bill: are you saying are, colonel shafer that the special forces are going across the border into afghanistan to assassinate or capture these guys? i m saying it is necessary if we are going to be victorious. bill: are you saying they are doing it? i don t know all the details. i was talking to some friends at cencom and there is debate and how to go about implementing the program. bill: you can have the program all you want, kill capture but you are not going to kill and capture if you don t go where they are. are they going into pakistan now, i think they are. there is drones going across the border and special operations guys and special forces. people are saying across border more of the national intelligence agency and cia and more of the operation of tear one. bill: that is unbelievably dangerous, though. they are the best. bill: you can buy these people as you mentioned as they