doing it and that they would get attacked ton. why not mention afghanistan and the troops? i guess the war is unpopular and raises the question of would romney do things differently and keep us there long: why not even say this is a president who has given our exit strategy to the enemy that everybody agrees in the republican camp is a mistake? why not say at least gratitude for the young men and women who fought over there in afghanistan and iraq. i think that was a mistake. chris: kirsten? on the jobs numbers i think it is a little overstated the effect. i think people are much more in tune with how they feel about things. they don t need anybody to tell them there aren t enough jobs. they already know that. one thing i would not underestimate is bill clinton s speech. it is the most anticipated speech more than even obama s or romney s was according could pugh.
or not talk about it. or afghanistan. or not talk about it. just not talk about it. the way they do that is by continuing to send young men and women to their deaths in a war they know they re never going to control. to what end? will never win the exit strategy. they will not win the exit strategy. we ve been saying it for four years. and young americans have been dying. they ve been tripling the number of troops and it s going to continue. you know, part of me, part of i think a lot of people, one of the candidates, either governor romney or president obama, to sit down with the parent of someone who has been killed in afghanistan and explain to them and thus the nation why their son or daughter is dead. that s the question. why? why? mrs. jones, i am so sad to inform you that your son has passed away in afghanistan, but i want you to know as commander
professional responsibility. so i call this a fast and furious principle. you move up in the organization based on the investigation. brian: especially the attorney general taking a pounding about this. the assistant director of a field operation, he had a chance to put an end to these risky tactics. he didn t. now he s in charge of the baltimore field office. william hoover, go up the chain of command, he was the deputy director of field operations. it s said he turned a blind eye to risky gun walking operations and order an exit strategy, but never followed up. brian: he s got a great new job. so he now is the brian: special agent in charge of washington s field office. rick: mr. nelson, the acting atf director, he had a long career and storied career in criminal justice, now he s out. no longhorn the acting director. we have a new acting director. we don t have a permanent director. and so now he s advising on forensic science. brian: you re in charge of the organiza
right now the sallies and the qataris are shipping things to the rebels, russia and iran are supporting syria, so it is bea hind the scenes. before i let you go, there is the fear that assad could be losing control of his government. there could be defections. given that fact, how much control does he have over the chemical weapons? might they fall into the wrong hands? the simple answer is we don t know what the level of control is. my guess is it is pretty good. my guess is they want to hold on to them maybe even for political leverage or an exit strategy of their own, or to use on, sadly, perhaps to use against the population. but the bottom line here is we do not know, and we are not going to know for some time. that is the assessment of what is going on in syria. we thank you for your perspective as always. good day to you. thank you. to the uk now, kelly, where british forces are ramping up security.