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The price we paid on 9/11. remember about the amount of money we have spent over the past ten years since that incident, and if you get out of afghanistan too soon, you don t know what can happen here at home, the complications domino for the years to come. but look at it this way. defeating al-qaeda, we defeated al-qaeda in afghanistan by december 2001, but we stuck around in tikrit and said afghanistan, you don t have roads, let s get road, you don t have a government, let s help with the constitution. what happened with our objective. our resources devoted did not creep, so we set ourselves up for a shortfall and failure. i think what you need to do, where are america s vital interests, let s put the money there and the other things will fall into place. we cannot continue to spend money, where 40 cents of every dollar is borrowed and the majority is borrowed from china. at a certain point, china is going to want something for that money. bill: look for this issue to ....
the prime suspect in a vicious beating of a san san francisco giants fan appears in corkts giovanni ramirez is his nail and he s not been charged for the attack at the dodgers opener game attack. in the meantime trvetion an emotional father s day yesterday for the family of victim brian stow. his two children, keeping their dad very much in their hearts. it kind of feels weird, not having him stay by your side. is that the hardest part of it. yeah. that kind of makes me cry a little. just a little bit. the kids making a coalage for their father s hospital room. brian stow remains in critical but stable condition. bill: 100,000 troops in afghanistan, about 45,000 in ....
Pretend to believe them. they had bin laden in a safe house all along. we need to apply pressure to pakista to say either help us or get out. john huntsman is going to declare his white house bid tomorrow, he s the former republican out of utah, and he was talking over the weekend at great length about how spending money in places like afghanistan needs to be reexamined. yeah. bill: he s a republican, not a democrat. but remember, what is his he s just been in china, he s just seen the rise of china. if you look at every great empire in the world, go back to rome, athens, portugal, spain, britain, every one of these countries, especially the soviet union, they were defeated not because they were defeated on the battlefield. they were defeated because their economies collapse said red collapsed and they couldn t afford how did reagan take down the soviet union? he didn t fight them on the battlefield, he strengthened america s defenses. that s the point when it comes to ou ....
Union. what are our priorities today? qaddafi? it s not on the same level. r. afghanistan, pakistan? what are our vital interests in the world today? the strait of hormuz, making sure iran doesn t expand in that region, i think, in israel, and then the rise of china, none of these engagements militarily that we have seem to affect that. i worry about priorities. bill: your point on libya is well taken. i think a lot of people would agree with you. here s another question in that poll, are u.s. troops in afghanistan making the united states safer. 37 percent say no impact. 17 percent think it s making us less safe. they re not convinced. and i think they ve got a lot of common sense. don t underestimate the ability of the american people to see through and get to the point. the point is in afghanistan, we got bin laden, we don t need to stick around and nation build what s happening in pakistan? they ve shown it s a fake war. they ve been pretending to help us get bin laden and we ....
Iraq. u.s. forces engaged in nato s operations in libya, involved in pakistan, in yemen. now an overwhelming number of american voters, according to one poll, saying it s just all too much. take a look at this poll, 72 percent of americans saying the u.s. is involved in too many foreign conflicts, only 16 percent disagree with that. k.t. mcfarland is with us, she s a fox news national security analyst and host of fox news live fox news live s-def-con three . the numbers on the surface, too many foreign conflicts. and too many that we re not prevailing in. if we were doing better in lib yarks afghanistan, yemen, the others, and pakistan, you know, i think it would probably be a different assessment. bill: so you think it s a measure of performance? it s two things. when i was in the reagan administration, reagan knew how to set priorities. he had one priority, which was to take down the soviet ....