our embassy was an outrage, and the attack on our forward operating base that injured 77 of our soldiers was a similar outrage, and it was in both instances terrible, but the fact is we avoided having dozens and dozens of wounded, or killed. reporter: what seems to have got even the pakistanis attention is the amazing of u.s. troops in eastern afghanistan to go after the hakani network. that operation last week has rounded up we understand and even killed 200 members of the hakani network. secretary clinton just told lawmakers on capitol hill that the pakistanis asked her to sit down with members of the hakani network, but those attacks, cross border attacks from pakistan into afghanistan seems to have gone up. take a listen to the u.s.
known to attack our western forces in afghanistan. jennifer tkpwreufp is taking griffin is taking a closer look at the pentagon. reporter: just a few days after secretary of state clinton, and james madis and david petraeus were in pakistan to convince the pakistanis to begin cracking down on the pakistani taliban and the h akani network a u.s. drone fired and killed six top commander s of a network that have been responsible for many cross border attacks into afghanistan. the network was run by a man who commanded 1200 fighters who carried out attacks against u.s. troops. clinton and the others told them they need to stop the cross border attacks. i made it very clear to the pakistanis that the attack on
is not accepting that apology. well, we haven t exactly apologized clayton, we ve expressed regrets for the loss of life. the attack on our civilian en route to the holiday city before the weekend was an unprovoked vicious attack and there was a lot of shooting of course, going on, and we have to investigate this incident very carefully. so, we are not apologizing right now, we of course, regret the loss of life, and innocent life of course. and, but we do the loss of our seven civilians killed on the road and the loss of a life of a man killed by one of more than 70 missiles and shells fired out of gaza at an israeli population of close to 1 million. clayton: there seems to be some concerns this morning, mr. ambassador, if you look at the stability of the region for 30 years or more, egypt was seen as a stable, a stable area, now, we re starting to see the cross border attacks,
because people launching cross border attacks between afghanistan and pakistan, i think that is something that a u.s. presence isn t going to stop in 13 more years, let alone three more years. does the president care that the public is uniformly in favor of getting u.s. troops out and fast? those numbers are much higher than they once were, but he s not changing his plan. does he care about public opinion on this? and if he doesn t, why doesn t he? joining us now is a professor of international politics at tufts university, a former state department senior adviser for afghanistan and pakistan. he served with the late richard holbrook. professor nasur is also a columnist for bloomberg view. thank you for being here, we re happy to have you. thank you. let me ask you if you heard tonight something that i frankly believe i did not hear, which is a new strategy for the afghanistan war. no. the president did not outline a new strategy. he essentially argued that we have succeeded so
might that happen in afghanistan? if so, how soon might that happen? when the president says the goal now is that extremists should not be able to launch from afghanistan attacks on us or on our allies, when he says allies, does he mean pakistan? because people launching cross border attacks between afghanistan and pakistan, i think that is something that a u.s. president isn t going to stop in 13 more years, let alone three more years. does the president care that the public is uniformly in favor of getting u.s. troops out and fast. those numbers are much higher than they once were, but he s not changing his plan. does he care about public opinion on this? and if he doesn t, why doesn t he? joining us now is a professor of international politics at tufts university, a former state department senior adviser for afghanistan and pakistan. he served with the late richard holbrook. professor nasur is also a columnist for bloomberg view. thank you for being here, we re happy to have you.