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Had troops based in afghanistan. and when you leave office in 2019 -- >> yep. >> -- we're going to have troops in afghanistan. >> yep. >> when your successor contemplates a second or third term in the united states senate from tennessee, are we still going to have troops based in afghanistan? >> the entire gdp of afghanistan cannot support even their security forces. i'm talking about their own security forces. the likelihood of us having troops there, some level of troops. now, you know, what matters, chuck, is what are they doing? okay. what are those troops doing? but are we likely to have ...

Robert gates was on to something when he stated that any of his successors who advise the president to again send a big american land army into asia or the middle east or africa should have his head examined. it is not just that it promises to be too costly. it is also that the prospects for success are too small. as you just said, richard, local realities matter. nothing is more difficult than remaking another society except in the rarest cases. we should confine nation building to here at home where it is sorely needed. and it's what you and barnacle and mika and willie and i have been sayin...

Is our money that we gave to the pakistanis. all sending shock waves through the white house and the pentagon. the president addressing it for the first time today. >> while i'm concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don't reveal any issues that haven't already informed our public debate on afghanistan. >> the leak adding fuel to the political fire to anti-war democrats who argue it's time to cut off the credit card because we can't pay the bill. >> our brave men and w...

>> afghanistan cannot afford it. >> it's why we are getting the american press. maybe why we are getting all the american press about afghanistan's mineral wealth. american's need to know they are going to -- >> i know it was timed as an announcement. this was as the war is going badly, right before general petraeus testifying before congress, suddenly hearing about a decade old study or a decade study that say there is's a trillion dollars or more of minerals in the mountains. maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel. >> it should have been weird to you that the evidence of the mineral ...

You think the answer should be? you don't want to pull out and accept the defeat, do you? >> i'm not suggesting pull out. we can leave 1,000 to 5,000 soldiers to fight terrorism fight and help train, but we've got 65 million refugees in the world. 25 million are kids. state-sponsored terror and you have countries that are unstable like libya and like syria and like iraq that are without getting at those bigger issues, afghanistan cannot be won the way we're doing it. you're going to hear more troop increase but has to be a change in how we fight the war on terror. killing more terrorists is no...