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game? let's bring in michael pillsbury, senior fellow at hudson institute and author of book "the 100-year their mono. -- marathon." michael, thanks very much, indeed, for joining us. >> thanks. gerry: a lot of sound and tour -- fury around speaker pelosi's itinerary. did this visit achieve anything? >> well, it achieved a lot, but a lot depends on what nancy pelosi does when she gets home to washington. she refused to join a series of republican initiatives including a task force to deal with china. she's kind of cold shoulderedded any cooperation across a broad range of issues. so ...

Groups, the safe haven, al-qaeda had this before 9/11. and keep in mind, afghanistan wasn't even fully controlled nor did it have all the functioning apparatus of a state. taliban fully controls afghanistan today. again, it has u.s. weapons left behind, training, you know, les training camps, its relationship with the taliban is even stronger. and the u.s. ability to strike inside of a afghanistan, it's a far more difficult situation today the than it was pre-9/11. and it isn't only place where al-qaeda and groups like these have safe haven. so the threat posed -- safe haven that it allows the...