KPIX CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley October 4, 2011
gave them safe haven. that has been done. but the taliban-- using pakistan as a base-- fights on. in a cbs news poll out tonight, we asked americans if the war has been mostly a success. 39% said yes, but 50% said no. we asked whether u.s. forces should be decreased and 62% said yes. there are about 90,000 u.s. troops here, and president obama intends to withdraw about a third of them by next summer. those troops have their hands full. this was a scene that we shot in kandahar province where americans were entering new taliban territory for the first time. u.s. casualties reached an ...