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Does that make sense to you? >> yeah, and i dont doubt that they tried to do everything they could, but he hit the nail on the head, time and distance, which begs the question, who made the decision not to have our ac130s closer, our f-16s closer. i think he does make a point that they cant always be there exactly when needed. however, the other command decision that secretary clinton made was why did we put someone into a situation like this without adequate military protection? i never would h...

I realize war is different? >> you have to think of the context of the local commander. if they want to open a road. >> greta: what do you mean by open the road? >> he gets a.m. burned and he is getting tired of it. he goes to the village chief you are in charge of the road. i want you to back off. he says, okay ill do it but you have to let mohammad go. its toss-up you get more americans killed by being ambushed on the road. its command decision and sometimes its tough decision but its th is an...

I realize war is different? >> you have to think of the context of the local commander. if they want to open a road. >> greta: what do you mean by open the road? >> he gets a.m. burned and he is getting tired of it. he goes to the village chief you are in charge of the road. i want you to back off. he says, okay ill do it but you have to let mohammad go. its toss-up you get more americans killed by being ambushed on the road. its command decision and sometimes its tough decision but its th is an...

For weeks and maybe the first officer had been feeling really uncomfortable with this person. but either way, i mean, for the first officer to take this kind of action is absolutely unprecedented. ive never heard of a case like this before. but the first officer really took a risk for his job to do this, because if he had been wrong, i mean, it would have probably cost him his job. megyn: it could be a career ending decision. it could have an life or death decision that he made for you,o but for...

That. >> if you say hes got to go, and the gang out there in benghazi cant do it quite obviously, even with american air force, then youve got to say, look, in the last analysis if we have to do a northern alliance with americans going in there and throwing him out, thats what weve got to do because he cannot survive. but youve got to make the command decision and then everything falls into place. >> this is what too many times american leaders do, they stumble into a war like this. where we now...

Love the nubs! command decision. good mornish, im chris jansing and happening right now the meeting that could change the face of the war in afghanistan. of course, it is between president obama and his top commander there general stanley mcchrystal. will mcchrystal, will mcchrystal be fired for criticizing the president and his national security team in a "rolling stones" interview. gearing up for a major offensive against the taliban. the president summoned mccrist tool the white house to ha...

And we were deeply concerned about it. we saw an opportunity and we seized it. i make no apologies on that. >> is this a command decision that only one person can make when it really comes down to it. you can have susan rice and everybody floating around and all kinds of politicians with attitude, but in the end, doesnt the president have to make the call? and he made it. >> he does have to make the call. he made it. we can talk about whether its a good call or a bad call, but he had to make it....

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