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authorization was granted. i think we need an exit strategy. we need a plan. we need a way to begin to redeploy our young men and women out of harm s way and we need to look at how to move forward. do you think the president is backtracking when you hear him say, hey, we never said we were just going to turn the lights out and leave? i think the public expects a review in december. i think the public expects us to end this in july of next year. i, for one, do not believe that we should have even gone there. again, we have to remember why we went to afghanistan. my question, congresswoman, do you believe the president was backtracking in those remarks? a lot of people on the left were concerned about it. i hope the president is not backtracking. i believe that the longer we stay in afghanistan, we re going to hear generals say and come to us and say it may not be working. we need more money, more time, more troops. or if there s progress being made, we ll hear the generals sayin
afghanistan on his sixth combat tour. so, at the end of the day, tom ricks, superb article this morning in the washington post, captured a lot of this. our way out is build afghan security forces. lieutenant general bill caulfield is the general on the ground. petraeus is going to go in. he has to build a police force and afghan army that can maintain internal order. we don t have the political will to stay with this much longer. i m the daughter of a military officer. i know the sacrifices these families are making. our troops have served brilliantly. they re brave and done everything we asked them to do. let s face it, if congress allows it, we ll have an endless war. it s time to begin to look at an exit strategy. a time line and to begin to safely redeploy our young men and women out of afghanistan and begin to look at how we ensure our national security. 20 seconds. how does it end? i don t think it does. i think we have landed in the middle of the middle east, for better
pakistan operating in the tribal region on the border. and yet we hear about the enemy being the taliban. are we clear on who we re fighting? general jones actually indicated, i believe less than 100 members of al qaeda in afghanistan. look at somalia, you look at yemen, this is a global operation. they re not going to deal with al qaeda al qaeda is not in a cave in afghanistan. we ve got to remember that. so, as we look at how we move forward, congress, first of all, has to have this debate. secondly, we do have to develop an exit strategy and a time line and begin to bring our young men and women home. let s remember some history here. al qaeda was in afghanistan when they attacked on 9/11. they re in pakistan right now because we re in afghanistan. we if we pull out, they ll have what they had before 9/11. they have not attacked the west successfully since they had to vacate afghanistan.
needs to be paid and clean up every drop of oil that s spilled. we have to do it. and that s the obligation. by the way, the i.r.s. says payments for lost wages from the $20 billion fund are taxable. shannon? we certainly understand they don t need any new worries down there. rick, thanks for the update. leaders of the most powerful industrial countries including president obama are meeting in canada. lots of tasks on the agenda including coming up with a solution for how to deal with the world s rogue nations like iran and north korea. our white house correspondent is live in toronto. wendell, what have they been up to? what s on the agenda? shannon, the final working session of the g-8 summit is just now wrapping up. this one focused on political matters. the leaders condemning north korea and iran and agreeing to come up with a five-year exit strategy for afghanistan the focus will return to the global economic recovery at a working dinner tonight when the leaders of a dozen e