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The fall. therefore, you will have less than a year of full fighting force of the united states and nato forces. before the deadline to begin a troop withdrawal. so the question is, is that enough time to pursue and win a counterinsurgency? is counterinsurgency really the best strategy? so i think all of these things need to be on the table now. >> david, to your point the reset button it is an opportunity for the president. do we live in a world now its never going to be easy to clearly positio...

Food. i like to give the president a break. if i could give him a poor boy sandwich made with gulf shrimp fully dressed and i would give him some napkins to go along with it. >> its an all-american small business, entrepreneur serving an all-american food, hamburger. good for president obama, absolutely is if he could press the reset button on u.s./russian relations, could he maybe order a salad. >> what was the tip like? thats what im concerned about. >> good question. >> he did pick up the tab...

>> well, lets remember that the president accepted general mcchrystals counterinsurgency strategy and he rejected the counterterrorism strategy that vice president biden and others were advocating. at this point, does he decide that strategy is still effective? i think thats really the question here. thats the larger context that this entire episode is falling in. is he going to press the reset button and get rid of the general and start all over and reopening that debate is perilous and we dont...

>> the plan all along was to remain within the republican party and to make sure these activists stayed republicans and helped elect republicans. it was zwrouft remake the republican party in his own image. another thing he said at the lunch i was at, was he was one of the few republican politicians whom tea partiers take seriously. he really thinks -- and i think hes kind of right -- that people like him who bailed out of the republican revolution in 2002 and werent there for all of the compass...

180. he camouflaged the establishment of republican roots he had to lead this supposed grassroots tea party movement in the beginning. hes asking tea party people to shed their tea party identification. was this a plan all along or just his reaction to a changing, shifting sands or perhaps quicksand? >> the plan all along was to remain within the republican party and make sure these activists stayed republicans and helped elect republicans. it was to remake the republican party in his own image....

Lunch i was at, was he was one of the few republican politicians whom tea partiers take seriously. he really thinks -- and i think hes kind of right -- people like him who bailed out of the republican revolution in 2002 and werent there for the compassionate conservatism stuff in the iraq war, they can press the reset button and come up with a sort of idealized version of conservatism and run on that. the problem is it hits reality. you have issues like getting grilled on the civil rights act. i...

Afghanistan in july of 2011 but there will be a long-term relationship with afghanistan for years to come and also predicting things are going to get worse in afghanistan as far as attacks on u.s. forces go before they get better. with me to take a closer look in afghanistan and our future there is gretchen peters, author of "seeds of terror, how drugs, thugs and crime are reshaping the afghan war" and brett mcgirk, served under presidents obama and bush. gretchen, a real change from the way thi...

The part of the obama administration and the u.s. military that a lot of the reconstruction and development efforts washington funded for years has fueled the corruption and reset button needs to be pushed in terms of not throwing around money in ways that fuel corruption across afghanistan. in terms of the drug trade, again, this is very corrupting in any country whether its mexico, columbia, afghanistan. its going to be very, very difficult to combat this problem, to replace corrupt police off...

Their differences, but how tense could things get today once these two allies are behind closed doors? lets bring in white house correspondent suzanne malveaux. that is the big question. theres a big friendly feel publicly. but they have been at it behind the scenes. >> reporter: absolutely, drew. one of things were going to see here in the goal of the four days of visits with hamid karzai is to press the reset button here. the obama administration has gone through a situation of carrots and sti...

This four-day series of meetings is meant to press the reset button and essentially the obama administration has been trying with carrots and sticks to try to get karzai to do what they want him to do. that is essentially to try to help root out the taliban in the south, to have afghan forces take over their own security and eventually allow u.s. troops to leave by july 2011. that is the obama administrations fold here. over the last couple of months, what has happened here is a real deteriorati...