policy or are they just the usual, as i said, kibbitzing? andrea? i think inside the white house and we should point out what the vice president said about richard holbrooke is he is the most egotistical bastard i ever met but he is probably the right guy for the job. so there are extensions and contexts there when you see the book that some of the newspaper headlines did not pick up. but i think it does cause problems and i think it does sort of precede an exit strategy by some people, like the national security adviser jim jones it is very clear that he feels ostracized. that he didn t have access to the president on the president s first european trip, the white house aides, he had to go to the president and complain. that kind of thing. it true they don t like each other? bottom line. true the military guys don t trust the white house political people and the other way around? your thoughts first, andrea, on that one? i think that is true and in particular, jim jones, marine
building. i m not spending $1 trillion. i have two years with the public on this. i want an exit strategy. i can t lose the whole democratic party. of course, today is wednesday. that means when s with juan. the npr analyst juan williamss us. guest: think to johnson and vietnam, and you could see the members of the administration going at each other, and eisenhower, people are at each other s throats getting rid of generals and the like. here we have a situation that is interesting with the military versus military. we have chairman of the joint chiefs, for example, mullen, saying his deputy is going behind his back to get to the white house. that is very interesting, you thinking those guys are not open
among his advisers, the exit strategy that he wants to see implemented, and a bombshell revelation about afghan president hal id karzai. bill: on a different note, paris will always have paris, won t she, martha? why is japan saying the partying sell seb not welcome in this country?
trying to spin it as public relations winner showing the president as decisive with a broad view of history, national security and his role. i share charles december may at the fact that this guy dismay at the fact that he said in the 2008 campaign that afghanistan was the good war and that we had to win it. it was in our vital national security interest that we drive out the taliban and deal with al-qaeda. then he gets in, in the first debate and all he wants is an exit strategy. the good news is he hasn t exited. not only did he raise, increase the troop levels by 30,000 in 2009, but he raised them again another 30,000 in 2010. and appointed david petraeus as commander there. when he said that he is going to leave in july of next year, everybody has been this is still a big mystery whether it will really happen. but the noises that are coming out tend to indicate that that is subject to
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