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Now it is more than that. but also the fact that nato has once, in its existence in 73 years, taken an article 5 vote to support one of its members against a foreign attack, and that was after 9/11 when the united states was attacked by al qaeda, and that resulted in going to afghanistan, which was a nato engagement as well as a u.s. engagement, of course, so the nato partners now today are talking about the disengagement from afghanistan, the end of the war which is actually taking place much s...

>> he was killed. whether he had official protection is something i cant tell. >> what do you think? >> really difficult to say one way or other but where he was, how could he have been without some knowledge. >> thats what a lot of people suspect. all right. lets talk about u.s.-afghan relations. right now youve had some successful, i think, meetings with the president of the united states. but a lot of americans as you know, and you look at american public opinion polls, theyre conce...

the united states. we talk about his personal relationship with president obama and even his personal relationship with mitt romney. stand by for that as well. and the man sometimes nicknamed americas supermayor, has made a super gaffe. im wolf blitzer in chicago. youre in the situation room. but first, through my exclusive far reaching interview, i just completed only a few minutes ago with the afghan president hamid karzai, its his only interview while here in the united states...

Rebalancing our defense expenditures so we can put the necessary investments where the greatest need is likely to be. >> so just to understand where this is going, when we sort of thought of libya, as an example here. i know you were against u.s. intervention there. that was a case in which there were no u.s. boots on the ground but we certainly provided air strike support. general, is that a model for how war will resemble under this plan? >> well, i think its clear that weve got lots of capabi...

barack obama. i think it will be very hard for him to win the general election because i think it just blurs everything. i think a real conservative who stands for solid values, essentially for new hampshire values -- >> the former massachusetts governor holds what looks like an insurmountable lead in new hampshire so he is moving on to south carolina. that states primary is january 21st. it has been a deadly day in iraq. at least 60 people were killed in attacks in baghdad and other...

Lives lost were not squandered and iraq doesnt return to its old was ways and have a different arab iraq in the middle east. >> i think what is missing or when win or victory what about future context? what is the plan going forward? there are two scenarios for iraq. an independent iraq either swallowed up by iran or the iranians feel so abandoned and so isolated they build a huge saddam like army which is as one general has said it will not only be able to play home games and play away games, t...

That influence behind the scenes. we have a very weak ambassador. we have a president who has shown no interest whatsoever in iraq. he talks only about ending the war and leaving, not about success and we have an administration that is linked and tied to a rigid withdrawal schedule, arbitrarily chosen by obama a year and a half ago, thinking we would have a stable government now. but in the absence of it, we have a drawon -- drawdown. for whatever reason we have had little influence. iranians ha...

That influence behind the scenes. we have a very weak ambassador. we have a president who has shown no interest whatsoever in iraq. he talks only about ending the war and leaving, not about success and we have an administration that is linked and tied to a rigid withdrawal schedule, arbitrarily chosen by obama a year and a half ago, thinking we would have a stable government now. but in the absence of it, we have a drawon -- drawdown. for whatever reason we have had little influence. iranians ha...

Discussion out of their people. it was unacceptable. the president did the right thing. i was really proud of the way he handled that yesterday. >> bob herbert, in terms of the time frame and the withdrawal schedule, youve indicated what you think the pressures are going to be. the president has a political context and also the geopolitical military context. how does he reconcile these two things? because obviously politically with the continuing economic woes at home, continuing unemployment, t...

As a sign of weakness and more like the promised beginning of the withdrawal in the summer of next year, the president promised, even, when he increased nato forces, in the country. >> eric: how does this complicate the potential withdrawal, he says 50,000 troops, next august, and all of them out by the end of next year. how do you think it will affect the timetable. >> i dont think there should be a timetable for withdrawal. i think the level and disposition of american and other nato forces in...