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>> i felt the case you were making in the book the reason they did this was these are people that had been fighting war for ten straight years, and had essentially detached from the civilian world in a certain way. they inhabited a sphere in which you say mcchrystal spent no more than 30 days with his wife ten straight years. talk a little bit about the civilian military gap and that what that means in a decade of war. >> it's huge. it's so huge. remember, you know, president obama comes in. he's never served. he made his career off being against the iraq war. who was for the iraq war? the pen...

Military. >> the president is not interested in reigniting the debate about afghanistan. he is invested in this strategy. this is the strategy they are not going to do another review at this point until the end of the year. they want to see how kandahar goes. they're not -- yes, they have delayed this offensive, and it is not in what they had planned on early on. yes, marjah, as general mcchrystal called it, a bleeding ulcer in that article, which is probably the two most important words as far as the war in afghanistan is going that were written in that piece when you think about that aspect ...

Himself. he wasn't a cowboy. willie talked to a lot of military guys yesterday. they were talking about the cowboy culture that infill straight mcchrystal's command. some americans say i want cowboys. no, you don't. you want dwight eisenhower. you want colin powell. you want guys who keep their heads when everybody else is going crazy and mcchrystal doesn't have it. he has a bunch of losers, a bunch of cowboys around him and makes our fight in afghanistan more difficult. >> he has very good people surrounded him. the thing he is going to get unloaded for is the fact that he let indisciplined -...

Finding this compromise on climate? >> well, chuck, john kerry is absolutely left. the senate has not acted, left to its own devices it will not act. it will pass another feel-good energy bill with some good stuff in it but not enough to transition to clean energy. you need a cap to do that. here's the thing, a cap on the utility sector would be a great beginning given the politics of this issue and the fires we've come through this year, it would be a major achievement. the utility industry is responsible for over a third of the carbon emissions in this country. if you can cap them and prove ...

From 2009. and what happened was, mcchrystal was out on "60 minutes" saying we need an open-ended trillion dollar nation-building counterinsurgency commitment. and this was at a time when the president hadn't yet decided on a policy. so he felt really boxed in. and i asked the president in an interview in november, were you jammed by the pentagon? and he said and i quote, keith, i neither confirm nor deny that i was jammed by the pentagon. now we all know what that means, right? so then what happens is, they get -- they pass the word, stop boxing the president in. mcchrystal doesn't get the me...