Asia Society Texas and the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston welcome Lt. Generals Khosal Sadat and Sami Sadat to discuss personal experiences during the Afghan war and perspectives on the U.S. withdrawal from the country.
Asia Society Texas and the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston welcome Lt. Generals Khosal Sadat and Sami Sadat to discuss personal experiences during the Afghan war and perspectives on the U.S. withdrawal from the country.
forces, the people they ve allowed come in, we have to remember this was about quantity not quality. both nato an the afghans wanted to surge the troops up to over 300,000 afghan troops. they obviously didn t do the vetting process very well. so now nato is taking other measures, including arming more and more americans on their base to be very wary of the afghans that they re working with side by side. afghans they re supposed to trust, but they don t know if they can. craig. take care of yourself. thank you so much for your fine reporting, as always. we are going to turn back to politics now and focus on the political tight rope, all the turmoil in the middle east is forcing president obama to walk. and the potential pitfalls that may await as well. i want to bring in doug wilson, former assistant secretary of public affairs, now a national security advisor for the obama
weapon. essentially, what the disagreement is here, craig, is netanyahu wants president obama to rattle the saber a little louder than he s rattling it right now against iran. mike from the white house, thank you. okay. developing news now in afghanistan, where american troops, four american troops were killed this morning when an afghan police officer opened fire on nato troops at a check point in a southern province there. this, of course, coming one day after another suspected insider attack. also, two u.s. marines were killed friday at the british airfield in southwestern afghanistan. the insurgents involved in friday s attack wore u.s. army uniforms and suicide vests, indicating an elaborated, coordinated attack. reporter: good evening there, craig. it was a very deadly weekend
here in afghanistan. both nato service members as well as civilian lives lost today. there was also a nato air strike that killed eight afghan women as they were trying to gather wood for the coming winter. they were mistaken for insurgent fighters. the nato called in an air strike killing them. they ve apologized for the incident, but obviously president karzai is upset here. also a deadly weekend when it comes to nato service members. two members were killed on friday during an elaborate attack when the taliban were able to breach the perimeter of the air base. it s stunning that the taliban, 15 fighters, were able to do that, killing two u.s. marines and destroying aircraft on that base. then yesterday, two british soldiers were killed by an afghan police officer who turned their gun on them. today, four americans also died in the same way when an afghan police officer and it seems they may have been duped. according to a local afghan