this having to happen. well, they can t be, because they have to they do look flip-floppy a little bit. everybody in american politics is always afraid to be a flip-flopper. hillary clinton already went out and said, well, there was an expectable decision. she spoke at the new school this summer where she slightly mentioned she spoke to the council of foreign relations. i think she s already preparing herself for that long war. but also distinguishing herself, saying, i will have an exit strategy. if we have to stay there longer, we will. but for a good cause. she s super comfortable with being a codemocratic hawk. she actually spends one minute defending libya as a great policy success. i don t know how you wrap your mind around that at all. she spent time talking about how edward snowden, saying serious about that. she s going to stand up to
from from large donors at all. from lobbyists or what have you. but breaking it down, here s what we understand, that 12% of the money spent is for hats and t-shirts. that s about a half a million bucks. and those are not being given away. they re being sold, kind of sounds like a lucrative business plan to me. well, you know, he is a billionaire businessman. and i think the question for mr. trump is going to be whether or not he s able to get beyond sort of the sound bites and cut through and be able to discuss his more policy positions. in fact we discussed that with him earlier this week. particularly his positions on obamacare, as well as his health care proposal. and of course his take on the economy. and dodd-frank, the 2010 law that he says he would repeal because it s stifling growth. so he s got a book coming out. he s hosting snl in a couple of weeks. so he s going nowhere. i think the rumor is that he s eyeing an exit strategy are false. this is a guy who s in this f
looking back on the war strategy back then. the president according to advisers was determined to find an exit strategy. he also said he couldn t afford to lose all the democrats, because as we remember, 102 democrats in the house voted against war funding, the war in afghanistan in 2010. so the president set his policy with a determination in the goal to remove all american troops. it didn t seem at the time to be grounded in what military analysts were saying and a lot of military analysts were predicting what s happening now with training camps, i saw one estimate, half the size of washington, d.c. and another training camp of significant size. seemle to develop despite all the training we did of all of these afghanis, much like some of the train week did with sirtians, that didn t seem to pan out as we had hoped. it is a big change for this president. what did you make of former
looking back on the war strategy back then. the president according to advisers was determined to find an exit strategy. he also said he couldn t afford to lose all the democrats, because as we remember, 102 democrats in the house voted against war funding, the war in afghanistan in 2010. so the president set his policy with a determination in the goal to remove all american troops. it didn t seem at the time to be grounded in what military analysts were saying and a lot of military analysts were predicting what s happening now with training camps, i saw one estimate, half the size of washington, d.c. and another training camp of significant size. seemle to develop despite all the training we did of all of these afghanis, much like some of the train week did with sirtians, that didn t seem to pan out as we had hoped. it is a big change for this president. what did you make of former defense secretary bob gates
specifically those of us that were embedded think that training the afghan forces is a viable exit strategy. i was certainly happy to hear the president talk about diplomacy, talk about negotiation with the taliban. that s hard to do with a time line. but when we re embedded with the iraqis, for instance, there has to be unity of cause and purpose. there s challenges that we don t understand. to give you an example, only 10% of the afghan military is even litera literate. you re talking about a country with valleys, canyons, limited road networks, the ability for them to sustain themselves logistically, the ability of them to use intelligence systems. it s very limited. and corruption s always an issue. for instance, if i can t control the flow of equipment from baghdad to mosul, how is the afghan military going to do that out through a valley 200 miles away? so there s tremendous challenges here. if the president solely relies on that, you know, this in the end is just going to delay