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Long term in your estimation? >> harold, as you know, karzai is such a volatile person. and sometimes you go day to day and week to week without being certain just where he is on the map. i think president obama finally just got sick of this kind of being bounced around by a ping-pong ball. he decided i'm president of the united states. we have to look at what our interests are. he decided that the large footprint, the counterinsurgency mission that had been started, that he had started himself with his initial surge of 30,000 troops just wasn't working fast enough. and so he is trying to stru...

Pakistan and pakistan's stability in the forefront, that was the whole idea of the president's review in 2009. let's focus on really the pakistan part of that. that just hasn't gone well. and this latest dickering over exactly what the payment per truck that's crossing the khyber pass into afghanistan will be. that's what they're negotiating, is sort of a sorry tale of this. at the time the invitation to karzai was made, the u.s. believed that this was done, that they had a deal. so i'm sure there's some feelings in the white house, hey, what happened to the deal? that's why you see karzai bei...

Main combat role in the middle of next year, in the summer of 2013, and then they'll move into a sort of support role, training and partnering with the afghan troops. the idea is to test the basic core idea of this policy, which is that you can transition at the afghan leadership and then u.s. troops will leave in 2014. they did roll that out. and they're going to roll it out again in chicago. but that's the basic policy. >> the harsh rhetoric -- gaifd, good morning, harold ford -- the harsh posture of president karzai the last six months over the accidental mistaken killing of afghan citizens...