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
Its too premature to speak about his legacy. After all yesterday we began an audit of these 8 million votes according to the deal that secretary kerry brokered last week. It will be a complicated audit and i wouldnt be surprised having gone through something similar myself with the ambassador and it may be longer than expected. And i imagine that to a certain degree question that we are going to talk about today cannot president karzais legacy will also be affected by how this election comes to an end. Nonetheless i think we all still have a great deal to say. President karzai has been leaving afghanistan one way or another the last 13 years since december, 2001. And we thought it was an appropriate moment while the election is being worked out to take stock of what has been accomplished in that time. And by that i need not only the state of the country they leave for the next president , but also certain habits of governing that he has adopted it has become the model to a certain exte
Its too premature to speak about his legacy. After all yesterday we began an audit of these 8 million votes according to the deal that secretary kerry brokered last week. It will be a complicated audit and i wouldnt be surprised having gone through something similar myself with the ambassador and it may be longer than expected. And i imagine that to a certain degree question that we are going to talk about today cannot president karzais legacy will also be affected by how this election comes to an end. Nonetheless i think we all still have a great deal to say. President karzai has been leaving afghanistan one way or another the last 13 years since december, 2001. And we thought it was an appropriate moment while the election is being worked out to take stock of what has been accomplished in that time. And by that i need not only the state of the country they leave for the next president , but also certain habits of governing that he has adopted it has become the model to a certain exte
Nothing about the Afghan Society and also a misunderstanding of karzai as an afghan leader because when you meet him it isnt like the other traditional afghan leaders but nor is it like the leaders that have spent decades abroad to receive their education etc. He is there and its easy to think here is a western oriented leader dressed in afghan clothes and its far from the truth. President karzai is afghan to the core. He is an afghan political leader and he lives in two worlds at the same time. He lives in the old afghan political context with his culture and traditions into the new institution established after the fall of the telegram. Talbo tally taliban. That is the world in which he grew up. And we tend to not understand that unfortunately. In discussing his legacy with an intact in may i ask him how to use your legacy and he didnt want to respond. He pushed the question back to me and said how do you see my legacy . I sent mr. President , first of all, i see you as a conscientio
It will be a complicated audit. I would not be surprised, having gone through something similar myself with ambassador ida, that it may be longer than expected. And i imagine that to a certain degree, the question that were going to talk about today, president karzais legacy, will be affected by how this election comes to an end. Nonetheless, i think we all still have a great deal to say. President karzai has been leading afghanistan in one way or the other for the last 13 years since december 2001. We thought here it was an appropriate moment while the election is being worked out to take stock of what has been accomplished in that time. By that i mean not only the state of the country that he will leave for the next president but also certain habits of govern he weing that adopted and has become the model for an entire generation of young people who have grown up during that time. One of the questions i imagine we will look at is was this the only way of govern iing . Another is the