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Even with air strikes. what do you think? sure. and i got to tell you, i agree with him. i don t want to see one of our pilots get stuck on the ground from some of the weapons that we left behind that this that these folks have now. so i agree with him there. i guess my point is, is that the president got a situation which he didn t necessarily agree with. but it s his job to do the best thing he can, and secure the peace that was earned by his countrymen. and by the citizens who fought in that war, whether they agreed with it or not. securing the peace is important to vol date, and to honor the sacrifices that were made to get there. walking away, i mean, i m sure we all are war fatigued but now what do we have? now we have more insurgents. now we got more of these of these crazy jihadists looking to attack american interests abroad and it s already documented these folks in iraq want to and have already been working on attacking america. so now we have to guy with that anymore. ....
The president s trip to afghanistan has surprised the troops and us, as a matter of fact. he left at late at night saturday night, east coast time. he landed, also in the dark. bagram air base is where he is. the guy singing on the left is brad pace lakers country music star. they seem to like him. we haven t seen the president. we are expecting him to talk somewhere between 1 and 2, but look who i have, sitting here waiting. so, when you look at this and the optics, let s all agree, great for the troops. you always these are the ones in harm s way right now. these are the troops in most harm s watch good for him for going there and doing that. but not an opportune time for him to be there. the best possible time for him right now. you know, he is the u.s. voters, they are fatigued, war fatigued, they are not so much on board with u.s. continuing ....
The taliban is spread out, connected to the people. the counterinsurgency warfare, the nature of these kinds of wars soaks up lots of troops because you have to deal with very decentralized on a squad and platoon level. that s why the president made the right decision in giving general petraeus the additional forces, the additional 30,000 that he needed to conduct the campaign. the fact of the matter is the ratios of your forces to the enemies forces has got to be rather significant. general, describe this. people at home say look, war fatigued. we re war fatigued and standing on the sidelines. people fighting the war must be you put that to the 10th power, do you think people inside the military on some level are celebrating? the president talked about 2014 being the end of the conflict and the beginning of the end starting now. look, these kinds of wars certainly test the metal of the american people in any democracy because they re protracted wars and they re ambiguous in ter ....