just makes better mps put politics and reelection ahead of other key military decisions and true safety. ed henry is live at the white house with the latest for us now. good to see you, jenna. the president, vice president behind closed doors have a weekly lunch, that is standard, going on for five years, but today they are opening the lunch up for photographers to go in and get a picture of that. this just one day after the details leaked out about not just the president, but the vice president leadership credentials in question by the former defense secretary robert gates. jay carney is stressing the only reason they opened up this lunch this hour for cameras is because they were getting complaints from white house ms. photographers, video folks as well saying there is not enough of these events opened up. it has nothing to do basically with the book but i can t recall another time covering this
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a civil war is possible. there are fighters going back and forth between syria and iraq. but i think they both have to be dealt with in a different sort of manner. they re not exactly the same. there is no cookie cutter approach dealing with syria and iraq even though they border one another. jenna: speaking of some models, we re talking about the new book of former secretary of defense robert gates, he had an interesting quote, we re only seeing excerpts of book, some of us have seen the whole thing but most are only seeing exerts. i want to share this thought. he said in relation to afghanistan, if i learned one useful lesson in iraq, progress depending upon security for much of the population. the theory if you get population on your side, secure them against the bad guys surrounding them, that works in iraq. can t work in afghanistan. the question, peter, can it work in other areas of the middle east? is that something we should be considering? security is basic and basic is to s
and, i think it s important to note because you see headlines and you see discrete excerpts that tell a story or one story or seem to say one thing but since a lot of what we re talking about here has to do with the policy review over afghanistan and pakistan, it s important to remember not remember, maybe some of you haven t seen this, it s been noted in some of the press reports that regarding that policy debate in his book, secretary gates said obama was much criticized by conservatives and hawkish commentators for announcing the troop surge in afghanistan would be drawn down in july of 2011 and that all u.s. combat boots would be withdrawn and all responsibility for security transferred to the afghans by the end of itary the
mentioned allegedly had said privately in front of secretary gates the reason she came out against the surge in iraq is the politics and the 2008 campaign made heavy charges in this book. jenna: and we will talk a lot more about it. thank you. jon: so that new book by ex-pentagon chief robert gates is setting off a firestorm and it is not even unofficially out yet. many are shocked gates would go a tell-all root since he is known as a discrete and dedicated public servant. could this new book damage his reputation? joining me now, fox news media analyst and anchor of media buzz that runs on sunday mornings on the fox news channel. this book probably could not have come at a worse time for the obama administration. they re trying to turn the corner on the launch of obamacare. this president job approval rating at its low point, even lower than many of his predecessors. now comes a book like this.
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