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Fighting on the battlefield in afghanistan and the feeling was that the appropriate time to have a national new york-style ticker tape parade was the time when combat troops were back home. >> to be clear, the iraq war is over. the idea is to hold a parade to mark the end of that specific war. not to mark the end of war altogether. military officer a decorated combat veteran of iraq and afghanistan wrote to me today on the subject to say this. if they are waiting until combat ops are over in afghanistan, who is to say this won't be another conflict somewhere else at that time that would preclu...

Place. there are said to be 15,000 u.s., u.n., and afghan troops fighting to take the city of marjah. and so, in one week, we get a stark example of the two afghan wars. the more or less conventional combat ops, the war taking place, this operation, and the cloak and dagger stuff. my next guest is well versed in both. ken robinson is a former u.s. military intelligence officer with 20-plus years in special ops and experience in special ops. ken, thank you for being with us. first of all, the significance of thisp capture. it is strange, because we didn't hear about it and it said it was not a ...