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Operational force. they suffered enormous casualties, we think in excess of 25,000 killed and wounded. their chain of command appears to have melted down. we are seeing gross signs of indiscipline, murder and abuse of civilians at a tactical level. putin has changed his strategic aim with civilian populations as the target of strategic strikes of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, aircraft. the russians are in a mess. now they're going to try to straighten it out. the key question, joe, it seems to me is can the ukrainian armed forces form an operational maneuver force and take the fight to ...

Iraq in brigade headquarters, does that mean ground forces? are they ground forces? are they in combat? well, it's not like it's a maneuver force. it's not like it's an armored division or an infantry battalion, but these guys are special forces. >> yeah. and they're in harm's way. if they're on the ground, they are in harm's way no matter what you call them,er er ithey are line of fire. can you hold that thought for a second? i want to go to the line of fire and nic robertson. there's mixed messages. if you're hearing it from your perspective and what the iraqis are hearing, number one, the a...

Political ambitions of the previous administration after 9-11 without going to war in afghanistan, could we have gone after effectively al qaeda without going into afghanistan, for example? >> first of all, i am one of those that strongly believes that the invasion of iraq was a strategic blunder. and it took our eye off the way we could have been dealing with situations in a number of other places. i was in afghanistan as a journalist in '04. spent most of my time with a marine corps unit there, and the way they were handling the situation i think was the way we should be doing it. they were ...

9-11 without going to war in afghanistan, could we have gone after effectively al qaeda without going into afghanistan, for example? >> first of all, i am one of those that strongly believes that the invasion of iraq was a strategic blunder. and it took our eye off the way we could have been dealing with situations in a number of other places. i was in afghanistan as a journalist in '04. spent most of my time with a marine corps unit there, and the way they were handling the situation i think was the way we should be doing it. they were a maneuver force. they were out taking on the elements of...

I just got back from a trip to japan. you know, we really need to focus again on our economic, security and cultural relations in asia. >> could we have achieved the political ambitions of the previous administration after 9/11 without going to a war in afghanistan? could we have gone after al qaeda internationally without going into afghanistan, for example? >> first of all, i'm one of those who strongly believes the invasion of iraq was a strategic blunder and it took our eye off dealing with situations in a number of different places. i was in afghanistan as a journalist in '04. i spent mos...