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Make sure were mission focused and mission directed and not egofocused and egodirected because of what we thought we wanted to do? what is the barrier to doing that? tony, you can answer first. >> the failure is we have a west moore land moment saying we seeked li seeked light at the end of the tunnel. i sent your staff the estimate on afghanistan on the basis of sources. those go into any document. what were doing, the intelligence is there to tell us we need to reevaluate. danny davis gave all...

Is because washington refuses to acknowledge and accept the nature of the social covenant in afghan culture and society, tribal, regional, and continues for its own egoic reasons to down play the talibans power so as not to appear to have wasted ten years in afghanistan. we start with anthony schaffer. also with us a man who taught us plenty, retired admiral and former democratic congressman joe sesstack. its late february in afghanistan. the mountains are high. the snow is deep. and some of us ...

The taliban, they will be an effective insurgency. >> so congressman, educate us a little bit. there are obviously significant interests for the united states foreign policy in pakistan. there are obviously significant interests in iran. there are significant balance of power issues between an expanding iran and saudi arabia. afghanistan has a strategic location relative to those theaters of potential power and all the rest of it. but what is preventing what general, what systemic apparatus, i d...