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Cost changed the politics. change afghanistan enormous costs and youve changed afghanistan period. afghanistan does not resonate. >> i have the greatest respect for tom ridge. excuse me. tom ricks, i have the greatest report for. mr. friedman was wrong about iraq. he said we couldnt succeed in iraq. we would fail and had to withdraw. enough said. >> the question still stands. what do you win if you win? how does it resonate? >> you win stability in the region. you win a reduction in the threat o...

Security. >> 20 seconds, tom. how does it end? >> i dont think it does. i think we have landed in the middle of the middle east for better or worse in a way that none of us expected us to. i think the war in afghanistan was made much worse by the distracting war in iraq which never should have happened. but we are dealing with the middle east that is crucial to our well-being so we need to come up with alternatives. >> amen. >> well leave it there. well continue our discussion with author sebast...

Change afghanistan enormous costs and youve changed afghanistan period. afghanistan does not resonate. >> i have the greatest respect for tom ridge. excuse me. tom ricks, i have the greatest report for. mr. friedman was wrong about iraq. he said we couldnt succeed in iraq. we would fail and had to withdraw. enough said. >> the question still stands. what do you win if you win? how does it resonate? >> you win stability in the region. you win a reduction in the threat of radical islamic extremism...

committee. journalist sebastian junger, author of "war." tom ricks, author of the bestseller "gamble" about the war in iraq and author and combat veteran of afghanistan, wes moore and retired army general barry mccaffrey and a look back in our "meet the press" minute when president truman clashed with his top general. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> 311 soldiers have died this year in afghanistan. the latest just yesterday by an improvised explosive device in the south...

bestseller "gamble" about the war in iraq and author and combat veteran of afghanistan, wes moore and retired army general barry mccaffrey and a look back in our "meet the press" minute when president truman clashed with his top general. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> 311 soldiers have died this year in afghanistan. the latest just yesterday by an improvised explosive device in the south of the country. june is the deadliest month since the war began in late 2001. the...

combat veteran of afghanistan, wes moore and retired army general barry mccaffrey and a look back in our "meet the press" minute when president truman clashed with his top general. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> 311 soldiers have died this year in afghanistan. the latest just yesterday by an improvised explosive device in the south of the country. june is the deadliest month since the war began in late 2001. the g-8 summit in toronto, president obama and david cameron...

withdraw timetable and all of it with you. i want to talk to you about general mcchrystal. the president fired him this week. he spoke to the nation about it. this is in part what he said. >> the conduct in the recent published article does not mean the standard that should be set by a commanding general. it undermines the civilian control of the military that is at the core of our democratic system. and it erodes the trust that is necessary for our team to work together to achieve our...

The region. they are significant. >> what are the consequences of success? tom friedman wrote in his column this week something very pointed and ill put it up on the screen. what do we win in we win? at least in iraq, if we produce a democratizing government, we will at enormous cost changed the politics. change afghanistan enormous costs and youve changed afghanistan period. afghanistan does not resonate. >> i have the greatest respect for tom ridge. i think both -- >> tom ricks. >> excuse me, ...

Ethnic minorities in afghanistan a pashtun leader in hamid karzai who will negotiate with the taliban and bring them into the government, the same taliban government that terrorized women, that terrorized other ethnic minorities, and there could be a civil war once we pull out. tom ricks, with that as a potential backdrop, i also want you to address the news of this week, mcchrystal out and petraeus in. what does this week mean to where we are? >> first thing, you have to have pashtun participat...

And the violence. 23,000 mexicans have been killed in the last three years in mexico. >> do those kinds of comments make the debate harder and make it a hotter debate? >> i think the government of arizona has done a good job in this whole debate. i may not agree with one sentence she uses but shes standing up for arizona and i think that the people of my state deserve a better environment of security than the one theyre getting from the federal government now and a federal responsibility. >> all...