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Family and for their country, and you made it harder on our troops to win. so if thats not something worthy of prosecution, i dont know what would be. >> one of the things that came out of it, so set aside that it was leaked. one of the things that came out of it was that the pakistan military spy service is helping the afghan insurgency. this is a country and this is a government -- an arm of the pakistani government. >> it is, uh-huh. >> and we give them a billion dollars a year. and people ar...

Show that kandahar has changed. that weve got better governance and the taliban has been cleared and the city is on its road to recovery. >> when you look at afghanistan, we went in there to get al qaeda. now were in there building governance, all that kind of stuff. is that the proper role? >> i think what we understand, afghanistan is one battle in a long series of battles. some of these battles are ideological where aid will turn the tide. sometimes you have to use military force. stabilizing...

Difference. and when the taliban sees that theyre not able now to just paint this as a foreign -- a lot of foreign troops present in afghanistan, but now its their own afghan army, a popular, respected army, that they are taking on more and more during this next year, that thats going to be a difference. that is a real nightmare for the taliban to be up against an afghan-led effort. >> we may be reading different things, and youve been there and i want to ask you about your impressions from your...

Basically defund this war. >> give me your best guess, how long will u.s. troops be in afghanistan. >> maybe the better question, and i dont mean to be presumptuous, how much longer will we suffer a lot of casualties. thats what people care about. weve been in korea since the end of the korean war. weve been in europe since world war ii and nobody cares. they do care when americans die. heres what awaits us. were going to lose more troops in the foreseeable future. casualty rates will go up, the...

That weve got better governance and the taliban has been cleared and the city is on its road to recovery. >> when you look at afghanistan, we went in there to get al qaeda. now were in there building governance, all that kind of stuff. is that the proper role? >> i think what we understand, afghanistan is one battle in a long series of battles. some of these battles are ideological where aid will turn the tied. sometimes you have to use military force. stabilizing afghanistan would be a monument...

Actually theres some positive indicators too. weve been doing a very good job, our special forces, of capturing taliban leaders. you hear that theres an increased number of american casualties, and there are. an increased number of afghan casualties, and there are. >> and there will be continued to be increased numbers of u.s. casualties. >> and there will be because there are more troops there and were taking the fight to the taliban, right in the heart of the taliban heartland. its a very impo...

On right now near kandahar, that the afghan troops are in the lead there. when their own people see that, it is going to make a difference. and when the taliban sees that theyre not able now to just paint this as a foreign -- a lot of foreign troops present in afghanistan, but now its their own afghan army, a popular, respected army, that they are taking on more and more during this next year, that thats going to be a difference. that is a real nightmare for the taliban to be up against an afgha...

Baker of "the new york times" and dan balz of "the washington post." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." while democrats struggle to find a single voice on afghanistan, the american public is finding its own. a recent cbs poll asked how are things going in afghanistan? only 31% said they thought things were going very well or somewhat well. 62% said somewhat badly or badly. testifying before the senate armed services committee, the man nominated to be the new centcom commander ...

>> and a republican member of the armed services committee, lindsey graham. >> to lose there would be disastrous. to win there would be monumental. and then politics with peter baker of "the new york times" and dan balz of "the washington post." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." while democrats struggle to find a single voice on afghanistan, the american public is finding its own. a recent cbs poll asked how are things going in afghanistan? only 31% said they thought things...