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obama s failure to provide for a stay-behind force is what created the havoc. are you saying it s all maliki and obama? i think it s primarily maliki and obama. that s what i believe and i believe what the history books have shown. you have said that hillary clinton would have been a better president than barack obama. jimmy carter might have been a better president than barack obama and i didn t think i would ever say that. she leads the back for democrats and rand paul leads republicans. how bad is rand paul compared to hillary clinton? we re just starting the process on our side and i ve not endorsed or condemned any of the candidates yet and won t. my concern basically is to make certain that the fundamental issues of national security are addressed by our party going forward. i think that there will be another mass casualty attack against the united states, i don t know when. i think will be more devastating with deadlier weapons than the last one on 9/11. i think we h
point he escalated the war and said this is when we re going to leave. we told the enemy we tkpw-r tog to leave by 2014. we are on a path to do that. there is higher risk associated with that strategy. all that said we still have an opportunity here with two more key decisions coming up to be able to sustain the afghan national security forces over a period of time to continue marginalizing the taliban. jenna: how long is that period of time in. it s probably about four or five years. the two decisions the president has in front of him, one is what will be the size of the stay-behind force that we will leave in afghanistan. we will leave one here as opposed to what we did in iraq where we did not leave one and we ve had disastrous impact as a result of it. if he agrees with general allen s recommendation that we do have an opportunity to continue to sustain the security forces of the afghan military. the second decision is what is
when general alston made that recommendation in iraq at 26,000, we wound up with no forces. now we have political turmoil in iraq. so clearly the on-scene commanders and others close to the situation in afghanistan are concerned about what will that stay-behind force be? most of us believe there will be a stay-behind force but it should be of sufficient scale and purpose to accomplish the missions that the generals believe need to be accomplished to sustain the gains we made and not to squander those gains because we are not willing to keep another 10 or 15,000 force there and meet the requirements that are obvious to people in the know. megyn: sustain the gains we already made. there are risks to the president politically if that does not happen. always a pleasure speaking to you.
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