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Several thousand more troops to afghanistan. the first forces could arrive in the next few weeks, let's discuss these new plans with . as you well know, to read some of the headlines the day after the speech, there were a lot of observers who say that with the president announced it isn't any big difference from what the obama administration was doing except perhaps involving more troops. your response? >> i think it's a bold, thoughtful strategy and revises the current policies that were executing. a focus on the troops is probably disproportionate to how comprehensive the strategy truly is. ...

I'm not happy about it. i will tell you. but i would leave the troops there begrudgingly. >> you have to stay in afghanistan for a while for the fact you are right next to pakistan which has nuke already weapons. we have to protect that. >> martha: when you look at that and here's the tweet that he said back in 2013. we should leave afghanistan immediately no. more wasted lives. if we have to go back in, we go in hard and quick. rebuild the u.s. first. there is a lot in there, obviously. and you can see the process that he has been going through here. and you can see that the president is very...

Here. >> about 8400 troops in afghanistan. how many which you send and what would you do? >> that's what the on scene commander is asked. but the fighting level that will be helpful. but is it decisive? i think not myself and looking at it. one of the things that is not obvious to make it down to these numbers and 8400, we pulled out all the enablers the afghan army had. anti-ied intelligence, apache tears, communications, all the things that create the balance forest. they were left with just the fighting part of the forest and they began to lose operational control dramatically after that. s...