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Institute has supported that. what if horrible things and women are enslaved and al-qaida is given a new home. we have been in afghanistan since after 9/11. the mission has change would. it was going after al-qaida and punishing the taliban. and now we are trying to build a functioning nation state there. when americans thought the purpose of the mission was to prevent al-qaida from carrying out a 9/11 attack they supported it but it is now a nation building mission. >> i hear we are gutting the military. washington post blog reads. obama cuts defense to the bone and then some. supposedly cutt...

Institute has supported that. what if horrible things and women are enslaved and al-qaida is given a new home. we have been in afghanistan since after 9/11. the mission has change would. it was going after al-qaida and punishing the taliban. and now we are trying to build a functioning nation state there. when americans thought the purpose of the mission was to prevent al-qaida from carrying out a 9/11 attack they supported it but it is now a nation building mission. >> i hear we are gutting the military. washington post blog reads. obama cuts defense to the bone and then some. supposedly cutt...

The in fighting in afghanistan? >> it does. people seem apparently shock that there's infighting in the white house. and i would be disappointed if there wasn't. this is a badly flawed strategy. it has a number of holes in it. not least of which is it's not properly resourced. if you were really serious about standing up a functioning nation state in afghanistan, which is our professed goal, you can't do it with even 100,000 troops. you need far more troops and to be there for a very, very long time. >> that's exactly what general petraeus said and i'll ask our graphic folks to skip ahead to t...