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Americans. >> neil: where does this go? jim mattis has a book out board of secretary defense worries had run-ins with the president, not only this but protestant barack obama who fired him from his job. but the one of the two links in common, jim mattis wanted to avoid troop drawdowns in iraq with barack obama in syria with the plan that president trump was looking at. in the president, rather, trump has reconsidered that for the time being. but that we are trying to extricate ourselves from thi...

Which the u.s. got commitments from north vietnam in return for its withdrawal. but once u.s. troops were withdrawn, north vietnam reneged on its commitments and invaded south vietnam. the most effective way to make sure this does not happen in afghanistan is for washington to delay the troop drawdowns until tangible gains have been made in terms of political power sharing and national reconciliation. it can push the taliban to keep its promises by formally bringing neighboring powers such as ch...

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You shouldnt announce troop drawdowns so far in advance. is he correct, militarily, that we shouldnt tell the enemy what were going to do? or is this just the nature of also having to inform people here at home? >> well, i think the president is addressing americans frustration with the war in afghanistan. weve been there 14 years now. there is no stable state. the taliban the taking ground in the south and the north. and everybody is saying, when is this going to end, this war? and is there a s...

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This week they will another coming to address congress. ashraf ghani has been president of afghanistan six months and he has a tough task ahead of him stabilizing a country wrecked by more than 30 years of war. meanwhile the clock continues to tick on american troop drawdowns. we are joined from kabul by ashraf ghani, president of afghanistan. mr. president, thank you for being on. >> its a pleasure to be with you and the american people. >> you have reportedly told the administration senior adm...

To prevent a revival of the taliban and the kind of collapse of central authority that were seeing in iraq. theyd rather see a 20,000-person force. buck mckeon says the troops should stay until the job is done. in a written statement he said, quote, holding the mission to an arbitrary egg timer doesnt make sense strategically. the presidents plans depend upon afghanistans new president agreeing to the deal, which outgoing president hamid karzai backed away from. both of the candidates in a june ...

Certainly this official emphasized to me repeatedly that general allen did not have an affair with jill kelley. jenna: there are so many different nuances in all of these different relationships. the last time you were on the program we were talking about afghanistan, and its worth noting that we are still at war in afghanistan, and general allen is the commander. what do you think this means for the war effort? what is the implications of general allen being investigated now? >> well, i mean, t...

Republicans? its monday, september 19th, 2011. this is "the daily rundown." im chuck todd. right to my first reads of the morning. we begin with the debt plan answering critics who say he never presented a specific plan during the summer debt talks, president obama will do just that. hell roll out a plan to cut the federal deficit by $3.2 trillion over the next decade. largely by raising taxes on the wealthy. a 10:30 a.m. speech in the rose garden the president will promise to veto any legislati...

Actually do the job at cia? he slid into that job seamlessly and very quickly earned the respect not only of the cia but national security officials throughout the u.s. and around the world, because some of our adversaries around the world realized very quickly leon panetta is a very tough customer. >> no doubt about it, katty. >> ambassador, what do you think the appointment of general petraeus to the cia might tell us about afghanistan and any possible troop drawdowns. were all looking at july...