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Afghanistan long after 2014 when u.s. troops were supposed to come home. richard reporting yesterday that in the draft agreement, in a sense, the war in afghanistan just starts all over again. albeit on a smaller scale but with a time frame that stretches past 2024. richard telling us here is struck him that the afghan government convening a loya jirga. then today, nbc news reported that a bipartisan group of senators is going to bring their own amendment to the defense budget that would require...

Government and the afghanistan government, calling for an enduring military presence in afghanistan long after 2014 when u.s. troops were supposed to come home. richard reporting yesterday that in the draft agreement, in a sense, the war in afghanistan just starts all over again. albeit on a smaller scale but with a time frame that stretches past 2024. richard telling us here is struck him that the afghan government con eventconvening a jirga. then today, nbc news reported that a bipartisan grou...

Agreement between the american government and the afghanistan government, calling for an enduring military presence in afghanistan long after 2014 when u.s. troops were supposed to come home. richard reporting yesterday that in the draft agreement, in a sense, the war in afghanistan just starts all over again. albeit on a smaller scale but with a time frame that stretches past 2024. richard telling us here is struck him that the afghan government convening a loya jirga. then today, nbc news repo...

As we look at how we return stability to afghanistan. >> you know, in the history of war, ive never seen a schedule to end one and yet were trying to schedule an end to one. that sort of tells you, by trying to schedule an end it means theres no real victory. just an attempt not to lose. is that a fair way to describe it? >> listen, we scheduled it into our troop commitment in iraq, and i think weve seen relative stability since then. certainly not a return to it violence that existed earlier an...

Another decade to come, a presence that many have likened to our ongoing troop commitment in places like south korea. for example. a political guru larry sabato on the fallout. there will be many in the presidents own party, larry, would will look at this and say, no, no, no, no, it is time to get out. make this a memory, now. and he is saying on the one year anniversary of the killing of bin laden, no, not now. >>guest: it clear he will stick to his timetable of withdrawal by 2014. what he is d...

Afghanistan, do you let incidents like this drive the overall policy? >> well, first of all, public opinion has to support to be able to sustain these kinds of operations. we have been at war ten years. in truth weve been at war 20 years going back to the first gulf war in 1991. i think the public is right to be skeptical. you know, for example, well see more libyas before we see another iraq or afghanistan. limited objective, specific limited troop commitment or limited military commitment. >> ...

"outfront" tonight, the market slid nearly 200 points today. the reason, fear and uncertainty. fear of europe and fear of the super committee. we are counting down to a huge moment for america on a day our commander in chief was warned chinas military is building up with one main goal, taking on america. ill get to that in a moment. first, the super committee is exactly one week away from its deadline to cut a minimum of $1.2 trillion from americas deficit. today was a day called criti...

Last night that he heard about a significant shipment of weapons from iran to the taliban strong hold of kandahar. u.s. forces are gearing up for what theyre calling a major offensive there in just the next few months. and admirable mullen says that battle will be crucial. >> half of president obamas 30,000 troop commitment has made it to theater with more coming almost every month. they are coming to kandahar. the corner stone of our surge effort and the key to shifting the momentum from the en...

Rescued hostages. they expected to be executed that day. after morning prayers. their graves hadal already been prepared. not only did our support help provide another mass killing, we enabled those partners of ours to deliver isil a clear defeat and prevented them from broadcasting a horrific massacre to the world. this is someone who saw the team that he was advising and assisting coming under attack. and he rushed to their -- to help them and made it possible for them to be effective. and in ...

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