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And these are very important words for the american public to understand. that in this effort that's going on right now near kandahar, that the afghan troops are in the lead there. when their own people see that, it is going to make a difference. and when the taliban sees that they're not able now to just paint this as a foreign -- a lot of foreign troops present in afghanistan, but now it's their own afghan army, a popular, respected army, that they are taking on more and more during this next year, that that's going to make a difference. that is a real nightmare for the taliban to be up agai...

One of the things that came out of it was that the pakistan military spy service is helping the afghan insurgency. this is a country and this is a government, an arm of the pakistani government. >> it is, uh-huh. >> and we give them a billion dollars a year. and people are going wait a second. they are training people to come fight us, and we're giving them money. >> well, they're doing a couple things, some good, some bad. put yourself in the shoes of pakistan. you hear this talk about america may be leaving next year. how much do you hedge your bets? it makes perfect sense to me that if peop...

Use 150,000 troops in every engagement. but if they beat us in afghanistan, if the taliban capture or regain control of part of afghanistan, it's going to make it hard in yemen to get people to help us because the ones who chose to help us in afghanistan are going to meet a very unseemly bad fate. so what i try to tell my colleagues, people back in south carolina, i know you're tired. i know you're weary, but nobody is more tired than the people fighting the war. why do these young men and women go back four times? they tell me they'd rather fight them than have their kids fight them. afghanis...

Coming together next summer if we're not showing progress to basically defund this war. >> give me your best guess. how long will u.s. troops be in afghanistan? >> maybe the better question, and i don't mean to be presumptuous, how much longer will we suffer a lot of casualties? >> okay. >> that's what people care about. we've been in korea since the end of the korean war. we've been in europe since world war ii and nobody cares. they do care when americans die. here's what awaits us. we're going to lose more troops in the foreseeable future. casualty rates are going to go up each month. the c...

And i asked the president that. how can we be successful in pakistan, protect that regime from extremists if all goes to hell in afghanistan. so i do worry about an unholy alliance with the right and left coming together next summer if we're not showing progress to basically defund this war. >> give me your best guess, how long will u.s. troops be in afghanistan? >> maybe the better question, and i don't mean to be presumptuous, how much longer will we suffer a lot of casualties? that's what people care about. we've been in korea since the end of the korean war. we've been in europe since worl...