we will continue to face huge challenges in afghanistan. progress does not come fast enough. progress comes slow at a high price. much more work needs to be done. it s not going to be instant. it is a big, messy process. but it s important that the american people know we are making progress. and i m absolutely convinced we will succeed. the president some saying trying to telegraph the mixed situation there, others say he s trying to have it both ways rhetorically and also on the ground with lives of troops on the ground. i m joined by peter bergen who just got back from afghanistan tuesday and sebastian junger, co-directed a brilliant documentary about it, which if you haven t seen you really should, also author of war, which is a great read as well. peter, you just got back. president obama described his exit strategy in afghanistan as on track. while in some shape or form, may be true, he didn t give clues as to what that, starting in 2011, will look like.
we will continue to face huge challenges in afghanistan. progress does not come fast enough. progress comes slow at a high price. much more work needs to be done. it s not going to be instant. it is a big, messy process. but it s important that the american people know we are making progress. and i m absolutely convinced we will succeed. the president some saying trying to telegraph the mixed situation there, others say he s trying to have it both ways rhetorically and also on the ground with lives of troops on the ground. i m joined by peter bergen who just got back from afghanistan tuesday and sebastian junger, co-directed a brilliant documentary about it, which if you haven t seen you really should, also author of war, which is a great read as well. peter, you just got back. president obama described his exit strategy in afghanistan as on track. while in some shape or form, may be true, he didn t give clues as to what that, starting in 2011, will look like.
the president some saying trying to telegraph the mixed situation there, others say he s trying to have it both ways receipt torically and also on the ground with lives of troops on the ground. i m joined by peter bergen who just got back from afghanistan tuesday and sebastian young, co-directed a brilliant documentary about it, which if you haven t seen you really should, also author of war, which is a great read as well. peter, you just got ck. president obama described his exit strategy in afghanistan as on track. while in some shape or form, may be true, he didn t give clues as to what that, starting in 2011, will look like. joe biden has publicly said the drawdown? july 2011 could consist of as few as 2,000 soldiers and sadly all the folks i spoke to in afghanistan on the u.s. side, the afghan side, you know, anticipate a pretty large scale continuous presence of the
poured into the pot we would be able to spread the cost around. if you are go giving people an exit strategy that pot is not going to be so big any more. sure, you get a waiver now whether big company or small company, what happens next year? do waivers get extended again? how many more in the pipeline? i asked the health and human services department this week what about the people that have been rejected? they didn t want to give me a list of those. greta: i bet every company that has a waiver, each one has a will be buyist in town. and unions asking for waivers too. not one company that has 51 employees in the midwest who can afford a fancy lobbyist can get a waiver. if you look at the list, you will fan a lot of companies that might have lobbyists. there are a number of small ones. there was a tire and retread company out of arkansas, louisiana and texas that a waiver for five dozen employees. it is not all the big guns.
or a single person with enough poured into the pot we would be able to spread the cost around. if you are go giving people an exit strategy that pot is not going to be so big any more. sure, you get a waiver now whether big company or small company, what happens next year? do waivers get extended again? how many more in the pipeline? i asked the health and human services department this week what about the people that have been rejected? they didn t want to give me a list of those. greta: i bet every company that has a waiver, each one has a will be buyist in town. and unions asking for waivers too. not one company that has 51 employees in the midwest who can afford a fancy lobbyist can get a waiver. if you look at the list, you will fan a lot of companies that might have lobbyists. there are a number of small ones. there was a tire and retread company out of arkansas, louisiana and texas that a waiver for five dozen