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How did the failure in Afghanistan come about and who is to blame? Multiple administrations and both parties own the blame for the state of the nation, says Col. Andrew Bacevich (ret.) of the Quincy Institute. We now have a responsibility to provide continued military and diplomatic support for the nation after our 20 year engagement, says Lisa Curtis of the Center for a New American Security.

That the iranians are complaining like heck about the sanctions. >> sanctions is evidence. >> is evidence there is another way. actually apparently the sanctions have really, really worked. >> professor, before we let you go, i wonder, you write about the idea of perpetual war and we keep doubling down on this. there are no signs -- we talk about the war on terror now as the forever war on this show. do you think the debate over whether or not to intervene in whatever limited fashion militarily in syria is evidence that maybe we are somehow coming to the conclusion of constantly being engaged ...

Much at great cost. so it's time for americans to think not about disengaging from the middle east or turning our back on the world, it's time for us to reconsider what american military power is good for and what it can achieve and what it cannot achieve. >> professor bacevich, i'm going to bring our panel in. everything the professor outlined seems to be if president obama was not president, he would agree with it. there was a strangeness to the position he's been forced to be in. he had no interest presumably in getting further involved in the middle east, elected to get us out of iraq and ...

Thank you very much. professor bacevich, thank you for joining us. we're 45 minutes past the hour. jacqui jeras will have a look at our morning travel forecast. some of the extreme weather we've seen in the country's midsection after the break. ♪ ay, yay, yay, yay ♪ ay, yay, yay, yay ♪ ♪ ♪ baby, baby, baby, baby... uh-oh ♪ ♪