Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20141229:19:49:00
Extremism and trying to bring the, quote/unquote, as they call it, the good taliban into the fold of the afghan government and trying to eradicate the quote/unquote, bad taliban. >> lastly, colonel jacks, obviously getting osama bin laden was a principle success for the united states in terms of the war in afghanistan. that, of course happening in pakistan. is there some metric by which we can judge whether or not this cost of so many years and so many lives was a military success? >> well there is a metric. that is that the war continues. by that standard the war -- our involvement there was ...