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Directed air strikes that are affecting them and affecting their sources of income, such as the poppy fields that produce income for the taliban. so there is progress in this war. leah: the poppy fields, they make $200 million a year. when you talk to former commanders about afghanistan, they say its the long term political issue, political reconciliation that will eventually provide if it does stability in afghanistan. but afghanistan is a place where politicians are known for corruption, techn...

Thousands. i remember being embedded with marines in helmand province when they had 30,000 troops and the marines were telling me, we dont have nearly enough people to cover this. look over on that hill over there, the taliban control that hill, right near and overlooking our base. so if youre adding 4,000, the mission is different. how do you take back a third of the country from the taliban. thats an open question. >> also, i remember there was all this talk about not just the military, this w...

Surge, it had the time limited, that was a surge in the tens of thousands. i remember being embedded with marines in helmand province when they had 30,000 troops and the marines were telling me, we dont have nearly enough people to cover this. look over on that hill over there, the taliban control that hill, right near and overlooking our base. so if youre adding 4,000, the mission is different. how do you take back a third of the country from the taliban. thats an open question. >> also, i reme...

Kill an israeli or someone else your family gets paid money for that act. >> i have think one thing you dont do is dignify the palestinian authority as a partner in peace, something that has been tried which has failed for close to 50 years now because they arent going to be a partner for peace. this idea that you can negotiate between the palestinian leadership and israel and create a palestinian state that will not be a haven for terrorists is a delusion, i think. the broader problem is the un...

Terrorist operations against us, against western europe, then i think that is the inevitable result. i think where our mistake in afghanistan has been is to try and donation building. i would scrub that activity entirely. i dont think it works. but i dont think we can allow our security to depend on the performance of afghan government troops. were there not to help them, were there to defend ourselves. >> but given the -- the topography -- how many years have we been there? >> weve been there s...

Terrorist operations against us, against western europe, then i think that is the inevitable result. i think where our mistake in afghanistan has been is to try and donation building. i would scrub that activity entirely. i dont think it works. but i dont think we can allow our security to depend on the performance of afghan government troops. were there not to help them, were there to defend ourselves. >> but given the topography -- how many years, ambassador, have we been there? >> well, weve ...

Terrorist operations against us against western europe then i think that is the inevitable result. i think where our mistake in afghanistan has been is to try and donation building. i would scrub that activity entirely. i dont think it works. but i dont think we can allow our security to depend on the performance of afghan government troops. were there not to help them were there to defend ourselves. >> but given the topography -- how many years, ambassador have we been there? >> well weve been ...

Power. we would have been out of afghanistan a lot sooner had we not spent seven years ignoring it after we had success destroying the taliban, chasing them out of the country and instead went it iraq. that was a big mistake. . spent a lot of money, a lot of lives and more time we could have product efly spent chasing the taliban pip think had we stayed in afghanistan, we would be coming home now with a great deal more success under our belt. the legacy here, is that i think we will hear and thi...

In the hour. couple members of congress, one republican, one democrat, written the president said it is time to pull our forces out. the mission is essentially overin afghanistan and nation-building is not something we should be attempting. your thoughts? >> i agree with the nation-building. i dont agree they ought to donation building. i believe they should stablize and secure the country to afghan security forces can take over from us and leave. we havent accomplished that. we started doing th...

Terrorist operations against us, against western europe, then i think that is the inevitable result. i think where our mistake in afghanistan has been is to try and donation building. i would scrub that activity entirely. i dont think it works. but i dont think we can allow our security to depend on the performance of afghan government troops. were there not to help them, were there to defend ourselves. >> but given the topography -- how many years, ambassador, have we been there? >> well, weve ...