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Definition of insanity to do the same thing and expect a different result. again, the president got bad advice. he was only given the option of more money and more troops or pull out completely. if we do pull out completely, it will become a terrorist super state because the taliban, isis have the ability -- right now they are making about $600 million a year between illegal drug sales and illegal mining. the 9/11 attack only cost $500,000. but we need to, as a country, have a sustainable and effective program going forward and with the thousands -- the 15,000 u.s. troops that are there. 30,00...

Definition of insanity to do the same thing and expect a different result. again, the president got bad advice. he was only given the option of more money and more troops or pull out completely. if we do pull out completely, it will become a terrorist super state because the taliban, isis have the ability -- right now they are making about $600 million a year between illegal drug sales and illegal mining. the 9/11 attack only cost $500,000. but we need to, as a country, have a sustainable and effective program going forward and with the thousands -- the 15,000 u.s. troops that are there. 30,00...

And in the end they rolled him and after a year more, another $62 billion of spending, more dead americans and lots of dead afghans we are losing the taliban showed that very strongly again this week. they kill another 350 afghan soldiers, four districts taken. they effective li cut the country in half by cutting a major city and also this week killed 50 kids in kabul studying or taking a college entrance exam. so the country continues to melt down. the conventional approach is not working. for the last 17 years we have basically repeated the soviet battle plan and it's not working. time for t...

Then we'll have our grandchildren going to afghanist afghanistan. enough is enough. let's rationalize it. the president's original instincts were correct, he should have gone with him. now we're another $62 billion spent, $62 billion that we have to create and sell in debt because we don't have it in a country. >> let me ask you about your own record. we know about blackwater. you've been questioned by the mueller team, testified to the house intelligence committee about this meeting that -- the issue being raised is whether or not you during the transition, just before the inaugural, were mee...

That faced years of investigations for its role in iraq, it no longer exists. he now heads a new organization and is pushing for privatization of the war in afghanistan. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> what would be the advantages of privatizing, given all the objections from the pakistan, from the state department, from the rest of the military? >> first of all, privatization is a loaded term. right now there's 15,000 u.s. troops and another 30,000 contractors. all i need, my plan would say, 2,000 u.s. special forces remain, and about 6,000 contractors. so by any stretch...