Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100616:20:20:00
All people has earned our respect. nobody knows more about counterinsurgency than him. we saw the success he had with the surge in iraq. i think he's wise to not telegraph the exact moves that we're going to make as we exit afghanistan, but i am comforted to know that general petraeus is at the helm will. >> jonathan, what's your perspective on this whole scenario? >> oh, look, they have made it very clear, the general has made it very clear and so has secretary gates that the process that begins the united states pulling back from afghanistan, begins july 2011. that's why they are here. they ...