Page 9 - Problem Set News Today

Afghanistan is the afghan army is taking the brunt of the fight against these transnational terrorists and the tally ban. we are working with our -- taliban. were working with our allies to have a more effective strategy, what are option weiss can bring to the president to be more effective in meeting the objectives in afghanistan, and what more can we ask our allies to do which were asking them now. this is going to be consistent with the presidents guidance to us. >> there should be thousands ...

Readiness crisis in naval aviation. more than 60% of the super hornet, the f-18 on the fleet are not ready to fly today. when he said were going to put a very big order with boeing, maybe, hes negotiating both with boeing and lockheed martin, which makes the f-35 at same time. hes pretty sh rude in that regard. when he finishes by saying, god bless boeing. i agree with dana, thats what we like the president to say. but if connects up to the 77 minutes yesterday when he talked about the mess he i...

Times. that clearly is not effective. we need a leader and a policy behind it, a warrior that doesnt want to go to war but if hes tasked to go to war were going to go war to win. >> here is what he said last night congressman and what he said repeatedly while running for the white house. here is donald trump. >> i love the generals. i know more about isis than the generals do. believe me. >> they dont much because they are not winning. >> i mean, this is a totally stunning change, right? do you ...

If i want to steal from you, i have to figure out how to get in take what i want and get out. if i want to attack you all i have to do is figure out where you congregate and i go there and attack you. its much easier. >> colonel, a last word or anything you want to add to that concept of how anyone is to go about their business on a day-to-day basis and try to protect themselves? >> i just want to underscore as jonathan said how difficult this is to defend against because you cant be everywhere ...

Information and every time something comes into the bucket, its adding to your analytic picture. its adding to your knowledge of whats going on. and you get a better idea of honing in on possible alternatives. and youre also excluding possible alternatives, as you add more information into the problem set. >> the transportation administer of malaysia says all of the objects spotted earlier in some of those other satellite images, french, thai, chinese, australian, they could still be parts of th...

Complicated problem set in syria. >> should he wait until after the second vote in parliament next week, should he wait until after the u.n. weapons inspectors report back in. >> i dont believe so. the president got himself in a bit of a box when he drew a red line on chemical weapons. we know of very near ten different episodes where chemical weapons have already been used in syria. the rest of the world knows that. this has been the most public certainly of the chemical weapons usage. and so n...

Road on that. petraeus will put his input at the end of this year. we may see that deadline pushed. if that happens, then we can create the conditions in afghanistan where an afghani government can stand up. but that will not happen with a time line. it is a much tougher problem set than iraq. well see. we need to learn the lessons of the iraq insurgency. >> larry: michael, were running out of time. first, i salute you, as everyone agrees, its a brilliantly written article, very well done. how l...

It is a much tougher problem set than iraq. well see. we need to learn the lessons of the iraq insurgency. general david petraeus is the man that can make it happen, if it can happen. >> larry: michael, were running out of time. first, i salute you, as everyone agrees, its a brilliantly written article, very well done. how long you going to stay there? >> im probably going to be heading out pretty soon after this trip. but thanks very much for your kind words. >> larry: whats your next article a...

Conflict than the one in iraq. a different problem set and just because you take the same general who had a brilliant general, no doubt, but who had one particular strategy that worked in iraq might not work here. and general petraeus is fully aware of that. in iraq, a civil war was under way. general petraeus was able to create a local resistance movement to fight al qaeda. here, the taliban has a different dynamic and no indications that a local militia would be able to be formed to fight the ...

And a show of force the u.s. hopes will add backbone to international efforts including sanctions and diplomatic isolation to convince iran to give up its nuclear weapons program. >> i think the nations of the region, the gulf, take comfort in the fact that we are here. that the 5th fleet is here, and, that the security relationship with the united states, is long and strong. >> reporter: in addition to the nuclear question irans biggest threat to regional security and prosperity is blockading t...