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Assessment as commander here is that it cannot begin now. certainly, yeah. the president and i sat down in the oval office and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice where i understand the mission that s been assigned. we have recommended the strategy and the resources that are required for that strategy and as there are changes in any of that that obviously i would communicate that to him recognizing that he has some issues with which he has to deal that we don t have to worry about and that s real life and that was the process that we worked through last fall. a process i thought was very good. the outcome of which was something we strongly supported. let me point out one other item about july 2011 if i could. what i have often noted was that in the speech that the president made at west point, there were two messages. one was a message of substantial additional commitment. additional 30,000 troops. more civilians. more funding ....
Fire. apache helicopters scrambled in response to the fired round. security immediately tightened. the meeting gets interrupted by rocket fire and gets people nervous. i didn t see anybody in there nervous. clearly this is what it is about. it s about pushing the security bubble out. it s about rooting out every last guy so there s not even somebody who can fire a single solitary rpg round. the fight in afghanistan is village to village and it still faces tough odds. even a friday morning run with staff and young soldiers provides little relief. there s no hiding from the pressure of rescuing america s longest running war. up next, much more from kabul including my exclusive sit-down ....
Do what it takes to succeed here and whether it has the stomach for what could happen here if the u.s. and its allies fail. for afghanistan, that s all for today. i ll be back next week from today. i ll be back next week from washington. president barack obama: today, about one in five americans is living with a disability over 50 million people including many of our friends and neighbors; teachers and coworkers; heroes and leaders. twenty years ago, the americans with disabilities act guaranteed every person the right to live, work, and participate fully in the american experience. ....
Provide my best professional military advice informed certainly by an awareness of the context within which i provide it but not driven by it. that s the same way we approach the very difficult recommendations that we made during the effort in iraq. over time i think those worked out and over time they can work here as well. let s talk about the afghan government. hamid karzai, president of afghanistan, is he a friend, a foe or something in between? he s a president of a sovereign country and we have to understand that. in many cases, most cases, we have converging objectives as is the case in any of these situations but in some cases we see things a little bit differently. that s natural. we went through this with prime minister maliki on numerous occasions. there s a situation in which the security forces from outside and ....
certainly, yeah. the president and i sat down in the oval office and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice where i understand the mission that s been assigned. we have recommended the strategy and the resources that are required for that strategy and as there are changes in any of that that obviously i would communicate that to him recognizing that he has some issues with which he has to deal that we don t have to worry about and that s real life and that was the process that we worked through last fall. a process i thought was very good. the outcome of which was something we strongly supported. let me point out one other item about july 2011 if i could. what i have often noted was that in the speech that the president made at west point, there were two messages. one was a message of substantial additional commitment. additional 30,000 troops. more civilians. more funding for afghan forces, authorization of 100,000 more of them a ....