Rais amesisitiza atahakikisha majeshi ya usalama yanatakeleza jukumu wakati ambapo Wataliban wanaonekana kuwa wanakaribia mji mkuu, Kabul, siku kwa siku.
to be long term internationally recognized players and acting like they have an internationally recognized embassy there. it s meant to be an office just to get the peace talks off the ground. the president karzai is angry that the ataliban have gone one step too far. he said i m putting on hold the talks with the u.s. the u.s. wants a long term presence in afghanistan and in order for that to happen there has to be an agreement with the afghan government. it s probably a hiccup. it s probably an obstacle. we ll see if it can be smoothed out. mr. karzai easy offended. what the taliban did was wrong. he also in the past has done this? he backed out and can be talked around. it s true but the fact of the matter is most analysts say what you can t do now is act as if the taliban is some kind of international player. they are now being brought to
he was killed. whether he had official protection is something i can t tell. what do you think? really difficult to say one way or other but where he was, how could he have been without some knowledge. that s what a lot of people suspect. all right. let s talk about u.s.-afghan relations. right now you ve had some successful, i think, meetings with the president of the united states. but a lot of americans as you know, and you look at american public opinion polls, they re concerned that they want the u.s. out of afghanistan, about 70% say it s time for the u.s. to come home, the u.s. is spending to keep 90,000 troops, $2 billion a week in afghanistan, $100 billion a year. why is this money well spent? we have already agreed on a process of transition to afghan authority whereby afghanistan will be looking after itself and after its security and the defense of the country almost entirely by 2014, and that s also the time that the american forces and other forces wil
that s what that guy calls leadership? pay attention to that up with. this week, jonathan carl try today lock down santorum on what would he do. what does president santorum do? do you commit to winning and what does that take, or do you say it s time to get out? i think if you commit to winning you change the entire dynamic in the region with respect to the ataliban and you say we re going to stay there and finish the job. this morning andrea mitchell tried to get an answer from santorum, let s see how she did. would you accelerate the withdrawal then? again, you know my feeling is that we should commit ourselves to be successful. but if the president is not going to commit himself, i don t see any reason for us to continue to be there. you know, gene, i want
for one of the region s main terrorist networks but one of the main operations planners for al qaeda in east africa. three months later two more of al qaeda s top operational commanders are killed in pakistan. in february 2010, u.s. forces capture one of the cataliban s p military commanders in pakistan and killed two more terrorist leaders in the reechbgion. a month later obama administration knocks off two other leaders, one killed in pakistan and the man believed to be behind the 2002 bali nightclub bombings is killed in indonesia. one month after this, this time in iraq, u.s. forces killed two of the top leaders of al qaeda in iraq. the very next month an aerial drone strike in the tribal areas of pakistan kills al qaeda s number three commander. month later in pakistan, an al qaeda commander believed to be the head of the group of external operations. of course, the big one in may of this year. u.s. forces raid a house in abbotobad, pakistan, killing the head of al qaeda and its