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Afghanistan and you kill upwards of 90 enemy fighters that are not there to plant ieds in the road, you have done something productive. general mcnicholson and i worked closely together. he made that call. it was a tactical decision and strategic impact. just to back up a little bit. president obama's own national security strategy talks about u.s. vital interests and rules based international order and preventing the escalation and spread of weapons of mass destruction as mr. hartung should know. syria used weapons of mass destruction and president obama drew a line in the sand and did nothin...

Commander who spent a great deal of time in afghanistan has asked for a thousand more advisers. i mentioned advisers. that would not be a combat presence, that would be an advise and assist and train the afghan army. and clearly, and also, there's a review going on at the national security council and at the pentagon. general mcmaster, the national security adviser, is going to travel to afghanistan soon to see for himself, and there will be, you know, hopefully a more laid-out strategy that says, you know that afghanistan's important, that we are not going to place arbitrary withdrawal dates ...

Member at academy securities. also bob baer bear is here, our security analyst and former cia operative, and peter bergen joins us, our national security analyst. peter, let's begin with you. you wrote a fascinating opinion piece on this. you obviously spent a tremendous amount of time studying afghanistan in afghanistan. you, of course, interviewed osama bin laden. you write in this new opinion piece, the timing of this, that the war in afghanistan is at a critical point. what message did this send? and will it be effective? >> well, you know, one strike doesn't make a strategy, obviously. bu...