>> the taliban have obviously heard president obama, they'll follow the policy review very carefully. obviously, if they believe the united states and other nato forces are going to draw down substantially beginning next year, they will not press and risk their own forces, they will wait until militarily they have the upper hand and then it will be difficult, if not impossible, for us to sustain what we have accomplished already and i think it risks throwing pakistan into instability as well and putting the nuclear arsenal in pakistan, very much at risk, and, falling into the hands of taliban and al qaeda. so, this is a very poorly timed statement by the president and if i were the presidents, coming back from his trip to asia, this is the first thing i would turn to. >> eric: what would you think the president should say to him? bottom line when we have these types of statements, karzai in your view, can he be trusted? >> i'm worried about the direct he's taking with efforts to negotiate with the taliban and i
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