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Think is not being done enough with regard to dealing with the kind of stress, anxiety, and more severe mental strain that these returning veterans are facing? >> well, i don't think this is just a military problem, david. i think this is a national problem. we have been short of military help professionals in the military just as we are dramatically short throughout the country. we have to provide the resources and the research to get at these issues like post traumatic stress, mild tbi, we need to develop objective measures so that we can unequivocally state what the problem is. that's one t...

Understand what they've been through. so what he specifically do you think is not being done enough with regard to dealing with the kind of stress, anxiety, and more severe mental strain that these returning veterans are facing? >> well, i don't think this is just a military problem, david. i think this is a national problem. we have been short of military help professionals in the military just as we are dramatically short throughout the country. we have to provide the resources and the research to get at these issues like post traumatic stress, mild tbi, we need to develop objective measures...

Campaign. president obama understandably in my view said we are coming out in 2014. secretary panetta said it is 2013. this could turn into a huge diplomatic and military problem for us in the short run. >> general, we should say that -- defense secretary panetta has come out and said he's deeply sadden by what happened. you mentioned 2014 versus 2013 time frame. do you think this might be prompt a quicker exit by u.s. soldiers to afghanistan? >> the american people conclude that thisment is going to work, that the talibanes ensly a giant drug criminal operation. and the karzai government, man...