him and after a year more, another $62 billion of spending, more dead americans and lots of dead afghans we are losing theea taliban showed that very strongly again this week. they kill another 350 afghan soldiers, four districts taken. they effective li cut the country in half by cutting a major city and also this week killed 50 kids in kabul studying or taking a college entrance exam. so the country continues to melt down. d the conventional approach is not working. for the last 17 years we i have basically repeated the soviet battle plan and it s not working. w time for the president to make some choices. tucker: so what s the thinking here? so as you said, it s been next month it will be 17 years. next tuesday. tucker: we do not control right, a large part of the country and it s not working. is the thinking that something is going to change or why are we continuing to do the same things over and over?