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Because their use of chemical weapons is limited. listen to what they're saying on the sunday shows. >> american people are weary, as you pointed out. they don't want boots on the ground. i don't want boots on the ground. >> we don't need to put boots on the ground. but we need to enable their neighbors, the neighbors of syria to bring some sort of peaceful resolution to this. >> we don't ever want to say, absolutely never any boots on the ground because iran is busy here. iran is very busy here. and so is hezbollah. >> gretchen: so besides being war weary amongst the american public, it's als...

Wes moore is a retired army captain and author of "the other wes moore." i guess the question comes down to numbers. 66,000 troops in country right now. what should it be five years from now? >> i think we're going to initially withdraw to 6,000 troops in 2014. i think a lot of work will be done by contractors, not u.s. troops, but we can't afford to continue spending the kind of money we're spending. you know, we have spent $557 billion up to today, half a trillion dollars, and what have we gotten for it? burma, somalia, and afghanistan are the three most corrupt nations in the world, and now...

Wes moore." i guess the question comes down to numbers. 66,000 troops in country right now. what should it be five years from now? >> i think we're going to initially withdraw to 6,000 troops in 2014. i think a lot of work will be done by contractors, not u.s. troops, but we can't afford to continue spending the kind of money we're spending. you know, we have spent $557 billion up to today, half a trillion dollars, and what have we gotten for it? burma, somalia, and afghanistan are the three most corrupt nations in the world, and now almost 90% of that corruption is coming from american taxpay...

From now. >> i think we're going to initially withdraw to 6,000 troops in 2014. i think a lot of work will be done by contractors, not u.s. troops, but we can't afford to continue spending the kind of money we're spending. you know, we have spent $557 billion up to today, half a trillion dollars, and what have we gotten for it? burma, somalia, and afghanistan are the three most corrupt nations in the world, and now almost 90% of that corruption is coming from american taxpayers' money. you'd be shocked at the amount of american taxpayers' money that's being spent over in dubai because it came ...

Market value over the last decade here. they had a peak market cap of $557 billion. recent market cap, $132 billion. obviously, when that tech boom burst, that bubble burst, it really affected them. their stock never recovered although they still remain a top company there. general electric, they lost $423 billion during the last decade. obviously, a lot of pain there. their peak market cap was $601 billion. let's go to intel. they lost $400 billion over the last decade. again, you'll see a lot of these companies, the biggest time for their market cap, when it was at its highest, was august of...