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Forward think about war and the objectives of war and accomplishing your initiatives first, which was to root out al qaeda from afghanistan to chase bin laden out of the country and ultimately get him, they did those things. we can talk about afghanistan, iraq, back to vietnam, down the line. do you think, because it seems like lessons are not learned from generation to generation, afghanistan could lead to a change about the way wars are planned and executed. in other words, not staying for 20 years and trying to change and fix a society? >> that's an interesting question, willie. it's an imp...

Them safe haven to the al qaeda network. >> we going to have to fight the taliban to get them out of the way so we could chase bin laden. >> now, if these hiding out, how does they get supplies? how does he live? >> well, money goes a long way in afghanistan, because it's such a poor country. >> oil, and the taliban. >> i knew if we could offer them money, and they could see we had military power to back up, we could get in quickly. >> the pentagon announcing to the public today the united states warplanes are ordered to get to the persian gulf as soon as possible. time to go do the job.

Polarized than you can remember it but isn't it interesting, you are looking at the same thing, really? you are looking at what looks to be very, very competent work by the cia under leon panetta's instructions, by the president overall, command and control of the situation, a deliberate decision to go this way rather than going with a predator a lot of decisions made over a course of almost a year and how do you not give the lion's share of all those decisions which were made by this president, to someone else who wasn't there making these decisions? your thoughts? >> a lot of these things ar...

Some measure. starting in 2005, they did begin to refocus and chase bin laden, but before that, and this is critical and been completely missed in most of the commentary, they let him get away at tora bora. so, for don rumsfeld to be talking on the subject at all is really -- take a lot of nerve. he and tommy franks refused pleas to provide more military force at tora bora. if they had done so we would have nailed osama bin laden in >> 2002. so, it's rich now for them to be trying to claim credit for this. >> did want to suffer too many casualties going through the mountains there? that's what...

Polarized than you can remember it but isn't it interesting, you are looking at the same thing, really? you are looking at what looks to be very, very comp pent work by the cia under leon panetta ages struck, by the president overall, command and control of the situation, a deliberate decision to go this way rather than going with a predator a lot of decisions made over a course of almost a year and how do you not give the lion's share of all those decisions which were made by this president, to someone else who wasn't there making these decisions? your thoughts? >> a lot of these things are t...