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getting a grip on a come pli indicated on u.s. ambassador to afghanistan and former director of intelligence dennis player. then, the push to november. anita dunn and former republican committee chairman ed gilespi. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." rick santorum has a sharper edge to him. he understands he needs to change the dynamic. >> the problem is, the republicans in this country are thinking about putting somebody with the same positions as president up. if this is about tweedle dee and dweedl dumb, we will lose. >> santorum's real weakness is his plan econ...

General ben hodges who is the head of the regional southern command. and everybody is paying so much attention to this part of afghanistan right now, because everybody wants to know if what general hodges is trying to do will work. whether or not he can take helmut province and kandahar province, the spiritual home of the taliban, and if he can make counterinsurgency doctrine work here? if they can do governance and security here in a twha effectively squeezes out the insurgents. can it be done here? if it can't be done here, what then? when president obama announced the escalation, the surge ...

Mid-february. intense combat lead by u.s. marines and british troops and afghan forces to be followed by what general mcchrystal called a government in a box. rolling out governance after the combat. government in a box hasn't worked out that way. marjah hasn't stood out by any means. security isn't established, and people siding with the afghan government there have been threatened and targeted up to and including assassination. kandahar has been portrayed in the press as the twin operation to marjah. twin but bigger. the line i read a million times before i got here is since marjah hasn't wo...