u.s. to get out of afghanistan? how do you think that change it is debate up here on capitol hill? well, it should change the debate because we were saying that al qaeda, bin laden, are responsible for 9/11 which is true. where we have driven the al qaeda out of afghanistan and bin laden who leaves the al qaeda, he is gone. so, therefore, what are we trying to achieve there? the taliban have taliban we supported when they were fighting the russian. reporter: some of your colleagues, including speaker boehner, saying just yesterday, they think that an accelerated drawdown and pullout would be a mistake and dangerous at this point. speaker boehner even said that this this reinforces and makes our mission in afghanistan more important, not less. i would say to the speaker what do you want to accomplish? you want karzai to be your friend when he tells you half the time he supports the enemy killing our kids? i mean, my in fact, i have
i think you said they weren t interested. i didn t say they weren t interested in history. let s stay on the specifics. the president faces a difficult decision. should he arm the opposition. and you ve heard the president, they say there is some flickers in the intelligence that some of these guys could be bad guys. they could be al qaeda or hezbollah, overwhelmingly they think it s good-willed people who want to get rid of gadhafi. do you take that risk? i don t know. i m not inside. i m not there. obviously once the we ve got american troops committed who we want them to succeed clearly. i think that there is a good deal of question as to who is involved in the rebel group. and i don t have any better visibility into it than you do. but you do have to be careful about arming rebels. now, we did a good job in afghanistan. we armed the northern alliance and some of their militias in the south and they were very successful in driving the al
i think the world s a better place with saddam hussein gone and with the taliban gone and the al qaeda out of afghanistan. just hearing that interview i think it s evident what the tone of the book is going to be like when you read the memoir, which comes out today. washington post did a review and said at its heart it is a revenge memoir. revenge, really? defensive as well in terms of defending the war and they said the language is very angry and aggressive. in addition to colin powell, secretary condoleezza rice, he points to other people who he said let us down during these decisions. he has that hard rep. george stephanopoulos will interview rumsfeld this morning on good morning america. should be fascinating. the social event of the season. will and kate s wedding and rumor about the royal couple visiting the u.s. wcwcwcwcwcwcwcc