essentially being like yeah, i know you re sorry. i don t need you to be sorry. i need you to go fast there is some urgency here there. . looking ahead to the state of the union is tomorrow. this is the president who repealed don t ask, don t tell. the outgoing secretary ended the end of women in combat, overpeeled don t ask, don t tell, took all these actions on previously taboo subjects like sexual assault in the military there is this sense that things are moving fast. what do you think given your experience both in the military and as an advocate is the way to make the motion go faster? just what i did, just what your other guests did, just our stories. you know, i wrote an article in the huffington post, as well, we see change, in the british parliament, an overwhelming vote. we saw the supreme court decision in new mexico. we have seen the changes that were announced today the changes are happening faster.
and you can see charlie essentially being like yeah, i know you re sorry. i don t need you to be sorry. i need you to go fast there is some urgency here. looking ahead to the state of the union is tomorrow. this is the president who repealed don t ask, don t tell. the outgoing secretary ended the end of women in combat, repealed don t ask, don t tell, took all these actions on previously taboo subjects like sexual assault in the military there is this sense that things are moving fast. what do you think given your experience both in the military and as an advocate is the way to make the motion go faster? just what i did, just what your other guests did, just what charlie did, is tell our stories. i wrote an op-ed in the huffington post today.
made good progress in the war. we ve been able to have 75% of their population now under afghan control and security. we ve been able to diminish the taliban s capabilities. violence has gone down. we re also developing an afghan army that is increased its operational skill to provide security. so we re on the right path towards trying to give afghanistan the opportunity to govern and secure itself. general dempsey, very quickly, women in combat. implementing that. is there some movement on capitol hill to pass a law to make sure you don t change standards, somehow lower standards. do you think that s good legislation? they can legislate if they like. they don t have to do that, because you re not going to change your stance? we re going to make sure we have the right standards for right job to maintain the readiness of the force. my primary responsibility is the readiness of the force. there s also requirement as we open up occupational specialties to report to congress, and
and, you know, the fact is we ve made good progress in the war. we ve been able to have 75% of their population now under afghan control and security. we ve been able to diminish the taliban s capabilities. violence has gone down. we re also developing an afghan army that is increased its operational skill to provide security. so we re on the right path towards trying to give afghanistan the opportunity to govern and secure itself. general dempsey, very quickly, women in combat. implementing that. is there some movement on capitol hill to pass a law to make sure you don t change standards, somehow lower standards. do you think that s good legislation? they can legislate if they like. they don t have to do that, because you re not going to change your stance? we re going to make sure we have the right standards for right job to maintain the readiness of the force. my primary responsibility is the readiness of the force. there s also requirement as we open up occupational speci
afghanistan the opportunity to govern and secure itself. general dempsey, very quickly, women in combat. implementing that. is there some movement on capitol hill to pass a law to make sure you don t change standards, somehow lower standards. do you think that s good legislation? they can legislate if they like. they don t have to do that, because you re not going to change your stance? we re going to make sure we have the right standards for right job to maintain the readiness of the force. my primary responsibility is the readiness of the force. there s also requirement as we open up occupational specialties to report to congress, and they would have the opportunity to ask us what we ve done to standards. look, this really is about changing the paradigm from one of exclusiveness to inclusiveness to do the best job, to make the best force, for joint force 2020, which is where we re looking. we have to get from here to