ops, through drone attacks, was blast it apart. he didn t need 100,000 troops to do that, as joe biden advised him. all you needed was a special ops war. i wrote this in the new yorker in november of 2001. that this was going to be a special ops war. it s been insane ever since. and the reality, gene robinson, is that we do have these drones. that have scattered al qaeda and of course the drones are following them into somalia and yemen and following them into countries. i mean, it s an entirely new set of facts on the ground that do not require 100,000 u.s. troops. no. they don t. and we need to rethink how we fight these wars. you know, the answer is not to, you know, load up the huge transport planes and send a bunch of heavy equipment halfway around the world anymore.
this is really kind of brutal and the gruesome injuries that these men and women come home with. look, the goal of our mission today, right now, if they were going to tell us the truth, is what you call forced protection. it s the slow incremental withdrawal of the troops in afghanistan, but leave existing troops in certain places to protect the forces as they withdraw. that s the goal to save american lives. the second goal is we have to heal or soothe the relationship with pakistan because this is going to be a special ops war for the next five or 10 years. we ll be on the ground there for the next decade in the special ops war. you cannot conduct a special ops war in afghanistan without the involvement of pakistan. 500,000 troops in afghanistan don t help us reach that goal. this should have been a special ops war from september 12th, 2001, on.
saying but i missed his war on religion. it s a special ops war. is it a special ops war? drones. they re playing led zeppelin songs backwards. they play the obama speech backwards. it only comes up in this serious ad. plus you know, clearly the target one wants to go after is gay soldiers dying for the country and putting their lives on the line that is the biggest threat to america. absolutely, a horrible thing, we can t allow it. enough. nice christmas message. you know what? suddenly, willie, i am missing mike huckabee s ikea cross shimmering in the background. mike huckabee, run for president! we miss you. rick stengel is next revealing the new cover of time, keep it here on morning joe. what is that? it s you!