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We don't know exactly how connecticut is going to be in military terms. if there's a lot more fighting, does that in any base run the risk of making a political settlement less likely? >> i'm not sure. petraeus at least seize counter insurgency -- not as separate from war. it's like something that happened simultaneously in different places. you can have like really active fighting in one place and sort of more negotiated political settlements in another. you can have school building over here and you can have kind of, you know, real active fighting in another place. >> on the issue of the eng...

Is a lot more fighting, obviously there's a big offensive today on the border, on the afghanistan-pakistan border, we're expecting some sort of initiative in kandahar, although we don't know exactly how connecticut is going to be in military terms. if there's a lot more fighting, does that in any base run the risk of making a political settlement less likely? >> i'm not sure. petraeus at least seize counter detecti insurgency -- not as separate from war. it's like something that happened simultaneously in different places. you can have like really active fighting in one place and sort of more ...

Were putting their lives and their colleagues' lives at their risks because their hands were tied because of engagement rules. that was a tough needle for him to thread because general mcchrystal freakily said for every civilian you kill you're creating more terrorists. so we do have to be careful to try to avoid to the greatest extent possible civilian casualties without putting our troops at undue risk. >> and yet part of the key element of counterinsurgency strategy is to win over the hearts and minds of the people, as you clear out the taliban in this case in pakistan and afghanistan, ever...

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