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Boots on the ground which we ve heard to no end. but i ve always heard from you and general jack keane this is not unsolvable military problem. there are not that many of them out there, if you wanted to wipe them off you couldn t do it. you could, right? absolutely. and you do have to play whac-a-mole. again, martha, it s a nroblem with washington and cliche played upon cliche. if you don t play whac-a-mole you don t defeat terrorists. we ve done this before. i m sick and tired of people saying there is no military solution. bush tried there is no military solution. we have never tried a true military solution. because we ve had a battlefield flooded with lawyers, we ve had rules of engagement that kill our own troops and protect the enemy. we had journalists and human rights activists all over the place. if you want to make nice fine. if you want to defeat fanatical ....
Iraq faces the same challenges can they get beyond primordial clan, tribe, sect and race issues? that is why the u.s. investment, the u.s. involvement, even on a diplomatic front is really critical. there is no other power in the world capable of trying to forge a united government. the united states invested a lot and it has, despite controversy over its involvement, it still has some creditability in trying to get this. if the united states doesn t help the iraqis find a political solution, it is doubtful that anyone else can. jenna: obviously there are those that believe a strong military option is the way to go here. in fact lieutenant colonel ralph peters on our air a few hours to go had this to say, robin. i will play it and get your reaction on it. some years back somebody came up with the idea of whac-a-mole describe hitting individual or small groups of terrorists. that is terrible thing. we can t play whac-a-mole. tell me what else you will do? killing terrorists in onesies ....
That people keep saying you can t play whac-a-mole, but if you can do it forever and keeping 20,000 or 30,000 in afghanistan is not a problem, whac-a-mole is no fun for the mole. you re beating these people up all over the world. i think maybe we re asking the wrong question and maybe one answer to how wars end is countries run out of money and particularly after the midterms we re going to start seeing a bipartisan focus, there s this commission reporting in december on the budget, and on the deficit, and i think one of the things that you re going to see both parties looking at is how much america is spending on that war. and i think that is going to concentrate minds hugely and i think the question is going to be, this is how much we re prepared to spend, how much security can we get for that in afghanistan. in theory, i agree with you. i think if you were a politician running on i m going to get out of afghanistan because i can t really afford to protect you from terrorism, i t ....