And the assist from Mother Nature and the items they recovered. The signs show that joe biden could run for president. And two failed attempts smooch. And the peace through celebrity, trying to use friendship and love. The u. S. Military is taking responsibility for saturdays airstrike on a hospital in afghanistan. The Top Commander in the country calling it a mistake. John campbell spoke at the Armed Services committee about the strike that killed 22 people and the current american strategy in afghanistan. Aljazeeras white house correspondent, Mike Viqueira joins us from washington d. C. With more. And so what information came out of this hearing if reporter well, after 72 hours of shifting explanations from the u. S. Military, campbell, the head of nato forces in afghanistan stepped up and took the blame. This, as he openly suggested that the president s stated policy of removing all American Forces and a training and advisory role and a Counter Terrorism role by 2016 was not a good
Afghans, how would you rate that difference . Significant. Yeah. Okay. Now, lets talk about the other aspect, train, advise and assist. Youre asked to evaluate the plan on paper. You said if everything works out well, that by 2017, on the train, advise and assist lane, we might be okay. It would be possible to develop sustainability by that time. Okay. And theres a lot of assumptions that have to be made and met; is that correct . There are, senator. Some of these assumptions are pretty enormous. Theyre significant assumptions. To hit all of the gates, would it be akin to kicking a 65 yard field goal . Senator, it would be difficult to hit all the gates exactly as weve outlined them. I think it would be kicking a 65 yard field goal into the wind. But thats just my two cents worth. This is on paper. My statement is that on paper, theres a disaster in the making to our homeland and to losing all the games we fought inside afghanistan by drawing down too quick and not being able to help t
Office. I wanted to ask a question about i used to work in the pentagon dealing with a lot of military competition issues and one of the things and concerns i think its u. S. Service members being forced out by the initiatives and event you also have other folks offered more money to go back and see and other things like that and some of the policies that have come out of that have been a little conflicting kind of sending a mixed signal. I know professor coming you mentioned about cutting the right flavor to get that force structure and death right mix of people. What do you think this is a question for the whole panel what do you think would be a more balanced approach to try to either get that right mix of people and also being able to offer the right level of competition for the people. I think if we are continuing to have an all volunteer force we have to recognize the fact that we have a contract. This is a contract to a relationship with individuals in which we promised them cer
Are not simply putting out the fires. We also have to think longterm, it seems to me, or we are in for a 100year war. Exactly right, sir. This morning at an open meeting, nsa director rogers said there should be no doubt in our mind that our nation states and groups with the capability festa to forestall our ability to operator basic infrastructure whether it is generating power or moving water and fuel. How concerned are you about terrorist groups using their capacity for what i call hackers for hire to attacker infrastructure . How serious is this cyberattack threat . I would agree with the nsa director in what he said this morning. As i understand it, the threat he is referring to is more acute from state actors that present them for an individual terrace or establish terrorists. Isil has shown a pretty good capability with the internet. Exactly. Certainly one they aspire and exercise. And so, knowing that, we are looking for ways to be ahead of them in our ability to defend her inf
Veterans. In iraq, the rebels advance as the government rallies, forces in response x. All the while, trying to avoid deepening sectarian violence. Two more towns well overnight from. The shiite leaders combat violence. And some people prefer the rebels over the government. Hundreds of civilians have been killed in summary executions. We report from baghdad. Reporter let me tell that you its not the first time that were seeing it this year in this country, joining up just a few days ago, the senior cleric said that people need to form peace platoons to protect the shrines, but the fact that this statement has come from the ground, the ayatollah, the highest shiite cleric in the country is key. Lets listen to what his assistant has to say. I call on iraqis capable of taking up arms and fighting the terrorists in defense of the people, their country and the holy shrine, they should join in forces to achieve this sacred goal. For all that theyre doing in places like bassra, young men are