if you are trying to win a war and negotiate with the enemy you want to do so, bringing home the troops, september of this year, bringing the search forces home means that general allen doesn t have the search forces to go into the east. so we shortened the fighting season and punishing the taliban. if we take combat off 2013 and taliban are being punished militarily and i hate these politicians that change the rules. don t you think they will be encouraged taliban that combat operations will be short nndz 2013. this is all local politics, this is domestic politics at the expense of a military strategy that i think is sound. greta: you ve been over there
if you are trying to win a war and negotiate with the enemy you want to do so, bringing home the troops, september of this year, bringing the search forces home means that general allen doesn t have the search forces to go into the east. so we shortened the fighting season and punishing the taliban. if we take combat off 2013 and taliban are being punished militarily and i hate these politicians that change the rules. don t you think they will be encouraged taliban that combat operations will be short nndz 2013. this is all local politics, this is domestic politics at the expense of a military strategy that i think is sound. greta: you ve been over there