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Committee will come to order. Today the House Armed Services Committee Meets to discuss the ongoing conflict in afghanistanful we have been engaged military information afghanistan for 14 years. The predictions this would be a long conflict have proven accurate. While there have been setbacks in recent years, theres also cause for cautious optimism. United states and its allies especially the Afghan Forces, have made some meaningful gains. A counterinsurgency is one of the toughest types of war a academicracy can fight. Its been difficult but not impossible and both our future security and the...

Deployments and we ended up producing hours and getting that next set of deployers ready to go we ended up delaying the deployment of carrier. When you talk about the Global Response force our ability to train our folks and their ability to have that next set ready is very much tied to the budgetary topline. Right now we have two carriers ready to go. We always have two to go. We are building up to a larger Surge Capacity but clearly with sequestration our ability to maintain that projection force generation is significantly challenged. Sir we have a designated Global Response force out of the...

The taliban were about 40 miles away in a very precarious Geographic Area they were barely able to hold them back in. This area of the province it is south of tajikistan. South of the river and geography is very important. The story is how he and his ragtag force was able to maintain any kind of defense. So it turns out he has the only operating mine in the world. Goes back 1000 years. He has two emerald mines. Of course he allowed his men to grow opium because that was the only way they could get cash. That was smuggled across to pakistan but he also knew in may, this is four months away from...

Because for many people,especially in the district i represent, one of the poorest the North Carolina, one that has high unemployment rates, that this is a godsend for a lot of people who thousands of people as a matter that who have never had coverage, who never had opportunity to go to a doctor. And i think Preventive Care is going to be the key to oppose do the things that we need to do for our population. So im looking forward to this discussion into the dialogue tonight because this is something thats very dear to me. And ill just say that i grew up with a mother who is now 89 in another ...

[inaudible] od [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Noon my name is stephen and i will be p moderatinganel the panel providing atique for e war kind of critique on the war on terror. I am a professor at the Naval Academy and i teach courses on American Foreign policy and ethics and International Affairs and iso i have two guests today. One is urgently on his way. The one we are missing is the correspondence with the New York Times and a person whose provided a lot off the story of the american response to september 11 attacks and since that is the story we are discussing today, hes a grea...