exit strategy. it helps to have the local populus on board. to some point they re foggy to be bored. so they re caught, right? they don t like having us there but they know what happens when we leave. so i think what s going to shape our exit is what people think in this country. it s very interesting. i just read in the new york times they are starting to diminish their rhetoric without the war. it s because of these incidents. let me does. you were tag about this earlier when you were in that country on a daily basis, do you think it s improved? will it be improved five years ago from where it is today? i started going in the mid an
thank you so much for joining us, michael, as always. how do you keep this balance? how do you keep the need to achieve a foreign policy objective after this moral setback? it s such a sad time, but you come back to first principles. a lot of americans doubt, especially with so many al qaeda leaders now dead, whether we need to be successful in afghanistan. but to the extent, you need some level of stability, or want some level of stability, before you depart. we have the fastest plan to get us there. we have an exit strategy. president obama is pulling out a third of our forces by september. we are, as you mentioned, getting out entirely with our main combat forces by the end of 2014. afghan forces are doing more every year.
is now happened. jonathan: the president through jake carney said distinctly that the exit strategy will not change and as you look at president obama on the phone with karzai some say that is not possible now because the entire exit strategy was built on the premise of trust between u.s. troops and afghan security forces and they also say we have new put the afghan people in a position where they are left with a sophie s choice of the corrupt karzai government or the corrupt and brutal taliban. the afghan people are self-governed in a tradition of tribes. so you force them into positions of choosing and they do not like the choice we are the issue. jonathan: and he agrees with robert young pelton saying at the top of the show, you cannot fix afghanistan without first fixing pakistan and that is job no one wants to take on.
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shepard: this is studio b at the bottom of the hour. we will continue to work with the afghan government and work with afghan forces in our strategy and investigate this tragic incident. and make sure that there is accountability. shepard: jake carney, today, saying the united states has no plans to speed up withdrawal from afghanistan after officials say a u.s. social there murdered innocent civilians. this is the latest set back in our relations after more than a decade of war. and americans are growing weary of the war according to the washington to the washington post 54 percent of americans want america out of afghanistan. jonathan hunt has been following this through the day. a lot of concern of the exit strategy especially given what