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Spiriva helps me breathe better. sfx: blowing sound. does breathing with copd... ...weigh you down? don't wait ask your doctor about spiriva handihaler. a deadly string of attacks rock afghanistan, leaving around 20 people dead, including two american soldiers. this all happening as the u.s.-led combat mission draws to a close. begging the question, is this the right time for us to leave? joining me now is rick ranell, former spokesman for four u.s. ambassadors. good to see you. >> good to see you. thanks for having me. >> i want to start with those images we just saw. when you see a rise in...

That we have. is that they just move over into pakistan, they come back into afghanistan. it's a very porous border region. to rick's point, which is exactly correct, pakistan i think privately, they have a really good incentive in the sense that they ignored just years ago the fact that isis was even in their country. yet if you look at the number of attacks, from the shia, the mosque, all the way to some of the defense buildings that were attacked, they've lost a lot of people to the pakistani taliban that now essentially changed jerseys to isis. i think they're publicly going to denounce it...

You had a ground force commander, the guy actually on the ground, who could see the target, would have had the authority to drop that bomb on his own. fast forward 14, 15 years, it would have to go through a litany of lawyers and you would have to wake people up in tampa and essentially get a u.n. resolution to drop a bomb. what this tells me is general nicholson did have all the authority that we needed and we weren't afraid to do what was necessary. and this sends a very large i think geo political message. but look, the reality of that physical location on the ground and those tunnels and t...

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