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Invest money you want predictability about what will come back to you again. part i think of what you sees a symptom on the streets of an uncertainty about the future. that is about creating certainty. its about creating optimism. i am not a wild eyed optimist but i am encouraged the strong strategic mess sangs in afghanistan today. its a strong potential afghanistan has to have a credible economy. >> do you long for the days when war fighting was just the marines had landed big bayonets and the...

Invest money you want predictability about what will come back to you again. part i think of what you sees a symptom on the streets of an uncertainty about the future. that is about creating certainty. its about creating optimism. i am not a wild eyed optimist but i am encouraged the strong strategic mess sangs in afghanistan today. its a strong potential afghanistan has to have a credible economy. >> do you long for the days when war fighting was just the marines had landed big bayonets and the...

Invest money you want predictability about what will come back to you again. part i think of what you sees a symptom on the streets of an uncertainty about the future. that is about creating certainty. its about creating optimism. i am not a wild eyed optimist but i am encouraged the strong strategic mess sangs in afghanistan today. its a strong potential afghanistan has to have a credible economy. >> do you long for the days when war fighting was just the marines had landed big bayonets and the...

Theres such a huge disconnect. that failed war pulled lbj out of the race. this war that just keeps dragging on and on is not even a second thought for most americans. >> well, im going to vastly, vastly oversimplify this and say -- >> thank you. >> the difference is the draft. i dont think theres a whole hell of a lot -- it may be oversimplified. but does anybody think we would have the deployments we have now in afghanistan if there were a selective service system as there was in effect during...

No, we dont. we have a moral imperative to spend the money more wisely. we are spending more money on health care per patient, on education per student, on war fighting per person, than any country on the planet, and we do it inefficiently. and you look at afghanistan. here is another example. theres not a connection between the cause and effect of health care, the cause and effect of education, and the cause and effect of this war in afghanistan where we waste over $2 billion a week. propping u...

Media becomes one that says the united states is going to cut and run. that does no good for our strategy in that region, jon. jon: putting a calendar date down by which you expect to have all the combat forces gone, you dont think that leads to good war fighting? >> no. there is an old saying if one side leads the fight it doesnt mean the war is over and i think that rule applies here. war is a contest between two contending side, both of which fully intend to win. war is a test of will. if the...

over and out. the u.s. military lowers the flag in baghdad. the final u.s. troops leaving iraq with pride. and putting a fragile nation in the rear view mirror. >> breaking news for your paycheck. big compromise on capitol hill that could put $1,000 or more back into your paycheck next year. occupy gingrich. newt gets heckled by wall street protesters. they get it back on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 15. welcome to "american morning." go...

a once top-secret military program thats enlisting animals to protect the country. but first, inside a polygamous sect. >> were dealing with the exploitation of children of young girls for sexual purposes. >> reporter: gary tuchman takes you where most people never go -- exposing polygamys dirty secrets. >> reporter: the scenery is spectacular and the polygamist families who live here along the utah/arizona border have been able to live their lives with little interference from the o...

>> were dealing with the exploitation of children of young girls for sexual purposes. >> reporter: gary tuchman takes you where most people never go -- exposing polygamys dirty secrets. >> reporter: the scenery is spectacular and the polygamist families who live here along the utah-arizona border have been able to live their lives with little interference from the outside world for generations. stepping into their world is both jarring and surreal. how many brothers and sisters do you ...

Wars. that is what we were talking about in the budget stuff, not enough shared sack krif five. >> confident this will work in the end in afghanistan, it looks like a mess over there? >> im not confident its going to work, im happy to see -- i have talked to general petraeus in the room next door here a couple of weeks ago and he think it is going well. i have great respect for him. i hope it is going well. the american people have and rightfully so, a very short attention span, we cannot contin...