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The -- the west has a thousand-year war with islam is islam was ever expanding. when islam began to contract it collapsed. and the caliphate was eliminated. now theyve established a caliphate. they are dead serious about expanding it. unless we begin to take back that ground and make this caliphate, you know irrelevant in the eyes of the muslim world or the radical muslim world we are going to have a bigger and bigger problem. so the key is to act promptly and to make sure that america is involv...

The -- the west has a thousand-year war with islam is islam was ever expanding. when islam began to contract it collapsed. and the caliphate was eliminated. now theyve established a caliphate. they are dead serious about expanding it. unless we begin to take back that ground and make this caliphate, you know irrelevant in the eyes of the muslim world or the radical muslim world we are going to have a bigger and bigger problem. so the key is to act promptly and to make sure that america is involv...

So you put men and women in a war zone, theyre still in a war zone. >> reporter: taliban attacks are down this year from 2013. but secretary hagels visit comes during a new wave of taliban violence in the capital kabul. whats the most concerning thing youve heard from commanders that scares you the most? >> i think this country, first of all, has made tremendous progress. where afghanistan was five years ago, two or three years ago, is hardly any comparison. but it still has threats. al qaeda, t...

>> reporter: one thing we are hearing, jake, at the moment is this statement has been delayed. we dont know how long. we dont know how long well be waiting here in the briefing room. just a moment ago one of the staffers at the white house informed us that this meeting that the president is having with his national security team and if you look at the list of participants in that meeting, it may explain why this is taking a little bit longer than expected. everybody from the secretary of state o...

Troops of whom two-thirds to three quarters would be americans. they would be very much in a training role rather than a -- out there patrolling type role. so i think those of us who believe its necessary or its helpful to have a residual force, i think were feeling a little optimistic, especially as a result of this election date. >> i also want to ask you, sir, about ukraine, because i understand you spent most of your career in eastern europe. in fact, you spoke at princeton thursday, and you...

Adjust? u.s. troops are spoeds to, if theres no agreement, out by the end of the year. if we dont have a new government until summer, that doesnt leave a lot of time for the united states to shift gear and stay on the ground and resume this training role. unclear how many troops would stay behind. the commander in this country says 10,000 to 12,000. >> richard engel in afghanistan, thank you for your reporting. still ahead, pushed out by protesters after just 11 days on the ground. mozillas ne...

I think he jays recalibrating the approach in mali. he wants to use more indigenous forces and turn it over to more -- our training role, rather than more american boots on the granted there. i think he is signal that this large american occupation of places like afghanistan and iraq has to be a thing of the past. >> i want to make sure that you both weigh in on benghazi. we continue to learn more information. the house has played a major role with several hearings, trying to get to the bottom o...

Take arabic, they take french. do you believe that we could see a day where young men and women come home in boxes from this region? >> well, sadly, luke, weve just seen that day. there were four brave americans -- >> more so, yeah. >> -- killed in benghazi. there were three recently killed in this terrorist incident in algeria. i think its important for us to focus on a training role and a support role for u.s. armed forces, and recognize that we have a positive model as secretary clinton remin...

The hands of president hamid karzai right now. and the only person outside the u.s. government who has talked to him at length on this subject any time recently is now our guest. joining us is atia abawi. atia had an exclusive and sitdown interview with president karzai in kabul last month. great to have you i dont here. >> great to be on. thank you, rachel. >> in terms of a potential agreement between the u.s. and afghanistan, for a long-term presence for u.s. troops, what -- from talking to ka...

Interview was the circumstances, really, that he wants the americans there in a training role. and on the outlier, he does want them to fight the insurgency, which he says in pakistan. he hopes the americans will be able to their special operation missions to get the insurgency, the taliban that wont talk. and he says most of those are actually across the border. he also mentioned he will talk about the immunity, that he needs to talk to the afghan people. but in the end, its the afghan people w...