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Actually there's some positive indicators too. we've been doing a very good job, our special forces, of capturing taliban leaders. you hear that there's an increased number of american casualties, and there are. an increased number of afghan casualties, and there are. >> and there will be continued to be increased numbers of u.s. casualties. >> and there will be because there are more troops there and we're taking the fight to the taliban, right in the heart of the taliban heartland. it's a very important point, and it's being, i think, missed so far by the media, that where we are taking the ...

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 be a difference. that is a real nightmare for the taliban to be up against an afghan-led effort. >> we may be reading different things, and you've been there, and i want to ask you...

Baker of "the new york times" and dan balz of "the washington post." i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." while democrats struggle to find a single voice on afghanistan, the american public is finding its own. a recent cbs poll asked how are things going in afghanistan? only 31% said they thought things were going very well or somewhat well. 62% said somewhat badly or badly. testifying before the senate armed services committee, the man nominated to be the new centcom commander wander against an early exit. >> sir, i have no reason for optimism that if the taliban were left i...

>> and a republican member of the armed services committee, lindsey graham. >> to lose there would be disastrous. to win there would be monumental. and then politics with peter baker of "the new york times" and dan balz of "the washington post." i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." while democrats struggle to find a single voice on afghanistan, the american public is finding its own. a recent cbs poll asked how are things going in afghanistan? only 31% said they thought things were going very well or somewhat well. 62% said somewhat badly or badly. testifying before the sen...