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weeks and we're still 2 years from getting out of this country. what happens between now and then and the american appetite to even learn and be informed about what's taking place in afghanistan? >> well, we're in a very trickty position obviously. i mean the numbers, remember are 20,000 u.s. killed and wounded. 85,000 u.s. troops we're 800 miles from the ocean. we're in a strategic withdrawal under pressure. we're doing it in an atmosphere in which the american people have written this war off. two- two-thirds of them do not support it. it's been running us $10 billion a month. so i think that the president is in trouble on this position. by the way, the whole notion that we'll transition and leave a successful operative state seems increasingly unlikely. these green-on-blue attacks were not caused by ramadan hunger for god sakes.

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