Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100707:01:03:00
General ben hodges who is the head of the regional southern command. and everybody is paying so much attention to this part of afghanistan right now, because everybody wants to know if what general hodges is trying to do will work. whether or not he can take helmut province and kandahar province, the spiritual home of the taliban, and if he can make counterinsurgency doctrine work here? if they can do governance and security here in a twha effectively squeezes out the insurgents. can it be done here? if it can't be done here, what then? when president obama announced the escalation, the surge ...