think the u.s. should not intervene in syria, down lightly from last month. 24% think the use should do something in syria. a war-weary nation. finally fbi agents are looking into the relationship between bob mcdonald, his wife and the executive of a nutritional supplement manufacturer under federal investigation. according to the washington post, authors are questioning people close to the mcdonald s as an outgrowth of the security probe into the virginia-based star scientific. officials are looking into whether they took action to benefit them in exchange for money. he is a major donor who paid for the food at his daughter s wedding. the ex-chef to the governor s mansion alleged that a year ago he gave fbi and state police investigators evidence of wrong-doing and abuse by donald and his family. the chef faces four counts of
is absolutely amazing the resilient see they have displayed these ten-plus years. they know it s not a popular war at home. they have been determined from the out set and are as determined today that there is a definite connection with stability and security in afghanistan and stability and security at home in the united states. they always make that connection and they are making that today. i m actually convinced until they actually walk out of there they will give it everything they can. jenna: are doe doing enough to support them? the vietnam comparison has some accuracy. we are a war weary nation. we made time tables not based on the conditions on the ground. jenna: we saw that that didn t work in vietnam. why would we repeat that? we did it -rblgs the president of the united statessess ka late the war but set a time schedule, if you can remember going back to 2 ao 0 th2009 at the speech of west
whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. 11 years ago today, u.s. troops were first deployed to afghanistan, following the attacks on september 11th, it is now the nation s longest war, during which over 2,000 american troops have died in country. despite that it has received little attention from the presidential candidates, and an increasingly war-weary nation. gener general, as always a pleasure to have you. good morning, alex. where does this war stand as we hit this anniversary? well, we re in trouble,
republican foreign policy critique of the administration, and to chris point, broadly speaking, i do think that there s a fundamental disconnect between the republican foreign policy establishment and even republican voters on these questions. this is a war weary nation. you can talk about our strategy in afghanistan. you can talk about we must say there until peace is at hand or victory is won, but the reality is we re going to leave afghanistan. we will leave afghanistan, nothing will have changed in that country. it is a tribal, islamic society with forces rooting it in the seventh century. we have had dozens of american men murdered by afghan comrades of arms. there s no discernible strategy, and i think that when the american people think about syria, they think about iran, they think about libya, they
facility and will be reunited with his family. these developments coming while secretary of state hillary clinton and treasury secretary timothy geithner are in beijing preparing for economic and strategic meetings with chinese leaders beginning on thursday. it s not clear how the chen case might influence those talks, but this was starting to become a sticky situation between the u.s. and china. china now reportedly demanding an apology from the u.s. for sheltering the activist. we ll have a live report from beijing in the next half hour. our other big story of the morning. new questions about america s longest war, this after a trip to afghanistan by the president that was supposed to sum it all up. president obama saying one year after the death of osama bin laden that crushing al qaeda is within reach. but a car bomb that killed six people after air force one was wheels up certainly a tough reminder that there s a long way to go in that country. we still don t know how