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His assessment, does it match up with how you see things going? >> you know, it really doesn't. what we were told by general mcchrystal and what he said about marjah being a bleeding ulcer, and we had reports that the governments, that the afghans were supposed to do as a follow on didn't happen. i think he was trying to put a positive spin on it. these congressmen passed the war supplemental, so i think there is a gap between what general petraeus is saying and what is happening on the ground. he is going to do a great job in afghanistan for us. >> there is no argument that marjah is better t...

>> let me ask you also about afghanistan. afghanistan obviously thrusts back into the headlines because of the mick cycchrystal scandal. is afghanistan likely to remain a policy issue? or could it become a politics issue? could it be a sleeper issue in this election? >> i think it will be a sleeper issue only if it erupts. i think otherwise it will be kind of as mcchrystal said, a bleeding ulcer. sort of low level fever. but if, look, if things go south badly and the status quo doesn't hold, then it could be a political issue. otherwise, i don't think it will be a political issue until decembe...

But sadly. >> let me ask you also about afghanistan. afghanistan obviously thrusts back into the headlines because of the mcchrystal scandal. is afghanistan likely to remain cap a policy issue? or could it become a politics issue? could it be a sleeper issue in this election? >> i think it will be a sleeper issue only if it erupts. i think otherwise it will be kind of as mcchrystal said, a bleeding ulcer. sort of low level fever. but if, look, if things go south badly and the status quo doesn't hold, then it could be a political issue. otherwise, i don't think it will be a political issue unti...

He was rethinking it after the success. he called it a bleeding ulcer. he's very interesting for me, shannon, as an anthropologist because i put him in the projects of the scottish-irish culture of america. he xexemplifies it. he respects bravery and courage and honor in other people. that's why he saw this in the iran people and changed with the paradigm of how to deal with them and upset a lot of people in the american army and others, because the taliban was seeing him as a different kind of soldier. we have to think off the general mcchrystal paradigm that general petraeus will be watching...

Enough progress to think this strategy is working? because it's not working so far. the mardja was mcchrystal's campaign. create not just a military victory but what he called a government in a box where there you give the afghan space to come up and do their thing to run the show. in fact, they haven't done that and the taliban has been resurgent there. january mcchrystal called it a bleeding ulcer. the objective is create enough space for the afghan government to flourish and create a civilian infrastructure and the institutions you need to build up their own fighting forces in such a way th...