Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110523:11:43:00
Paperback and what's happened in the year or so since this remarkable book came out. how have you seen policy shift in afghanistan? how have you seen america's view of afghanistan shift since you wrote your book? >> well, first of all, they pulled out of the copesh river valley and did a lot of development and changed the society actually and then they pulled out. i think the thinking, it was really a broad realignment of forces in afghanistan. what they realized was they were trying to deal with these small valleys where actually the population was very low, there weren't many people. they we...