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Upper level taliban and other extremist element leaders have been killed and cuptured. but six months ago we could not have walked through the market in marjah as i was able to do with the district governor there two mobt months ago. >> he also said marjah is going much slower than we thought it would. i should add june was the deadliest month of the year. when you listen to that part of his assessment, does it match up with how you see things going? >> you know, it really doesn't. because i think -- what we were told by general mcchrystal, at least in what he's said publicly about marjah bein...

What general petraeus is saying and what is happening on the ground. i think general petraeus is going to do a great job in afghanistan for us. >> there's still no argument that marjah is better now than it was five years ago for us, three years ago. marjah's better. it just didn't work out the way it was planned. one of those reasons was mcchrystal didn't kill enough bad guy, frankly. we kind of went in soft and tried to make friends. marines did have some of the intense fighting. we didn't go in hard and heavy like we did in iraq in the anbar province. i think that came back to bite us. as s...

Today many accomplishment of the afghan people -- >> it seems like we're going backwards here. if killings are up, roadside bomb attacks are up, we can't get out of marjah at this point because there hasn't been the appropriate backup to come in and set up a government. so can you see why the american people would think, this is never going to end? >> no. the american people did not come to afghanistan to fix marjah. they came to afghanistan because they were attacked as part of the 9/11. that threat is still imminent. we are facing a brutal enemy in afghanistan who is a threat not only to the...