Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120502:10:18:00
Years ago. so don't act shocked today. >> i'm not acting shocked. i'm just saying i haven't heard a better alternative. >> we gave that alternative three years ago, mika, and that was don't triple the number of troops on afghanistan, don't double down on a bad idea, start phasing the troops out. and so now we are extending this a decade. >> good. ok. let me take your point to jack jacobs and ask jack, what would be the ramifications of what joe just said and also walking away from a partnership with hamid karzai, if anything? >> i think everybody thinks that hamid karzai is there for the short...