you ll take a hard look at this and make a determination about when america s footprint should be diminished and when that s appropriate? absolutely. again, as he has said, as nato officials have said, that s a real key element of this. we have since drawn up a number of other principles and guidelines which we provided up our operational chain of command. reporter: but the level of u.s. troops is not the most pressing concern on the ground. the biggest obstacle, rampant corruption in the afghan government. president hamid karzai promised a crackdown but u.s. officials await results and have grown more suspect since he began to intersevere with a u.s. antikrpgs task force. u.s. ambassador karl eikenberry defends karzai now but last fall he privately warned that karzai could not be trusted. my direct question is you made it clear that you did not trust him as a partner in this debate. that may not have been a view
meeting with tribal elders and the governor, the general s visit was interrupted by rocket fire. apache helicopters scrambled in response to the fired round. security immediately tightened. the meeting gets interrupted by rocket fire and gets people nervous. i didn t see anybody in there nervous. clearly this is what it is about. it s about pushing the security bubble out. it s about rooting out every last guy so there s not even somebody who can fire a single solitary rpg round. the fight in afghanistan is village to village and it still faces tough odds. even a friday morning run with staff and young soldiers provides little relief. there s no hiding from the pressure of rescuing america s longest running war. up next, much more from kabul
the policy. rahm emanuel said last week it s the policy. i really don t know. if general petraeus is given the challenge of turning afghanistan around and the enemy believes we re going to leave next summer no matter what or start to leave, it s going to be very hard for him or anyone else to win. chris: senator feinstein? i have great respect for general petraeus. i think he really should be command presence of all of it. i think ten years chris: over the civilians? over the team. if the team isn t right, i think petraeus views should be taken into consideration and observed by the administration. this is kind of, if you will, not a last ditch stand, but it is a major change in the middle of the surge and i think you put the general in, he should make the call. if he can t work with the ambassador, the ambassador should be changed. if he can t work with holbrook, that should change. i mean, i think we put all of our eggs in the petraeus basket