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Things over even with a long term commitment. >> also with a vision post 2014 where we have ended our combat role. the afghan war as we understand it is over. but, our commitment to friendship and partnership continues with afghanistan. >>reporter: but it will still cost several billion a year in the many years ahead to continue making sure the peace holds in afghanistan and the security gains are not lost. one of the other key goals of the president here at nato is to try to get some other nato allies, but, also, countries outside nato who have a stake in seeing peace hold and kick in money s...

I agree with you. i think the president has over played their hand. it seems like they are running on two thing it's one, the killing of bin laden and the auto bailout. have you other issues that will come up. i know you brought your trusty whiteboard. >> thru go. i listened to the president's speech. there were five big points. the president said the afghans are going to be in charge of fighting the taliban by next year. li hope so. the second problem is he said, we are going to withdraw u.s. troops. we will have a responsible end. we need to keep the flexibility that if the afghans are not a...

I agree with you. i think the president has over played their hand. it seems like they are running on two thing it's one, the killing of bin laden and the auto bailout. have you other issues that will come up. i know you brought your trusty whiteboard. >> thru go. i listened to the president's speech. there were five big points. the president said the afghans are going to be in charge of fighting the taliban by next year. li hope so. the second problem is he said, we are going to withdraw u.s. troops. we will have a responsible end. we need to keep the flexibility that if the afghans are not a...

We should also note for that, we should also note in this speech tonight the president is fulfilling a campaign promise. he said in 2008 he would focus more on afghanistan than iraq, wind that war down, beef up the forces in afghanistan. his liberal base did not like that. he did it anyway. there have been security gains there. he did get bin laden and now tonight, he is moving towards what he calls a responsible end to the war in afghanistan, but again we've got to outline, it's no the end yet. u.s. forces are still going to be in a combat role for over two years. >> shep: ed henry, thanks. w...

Iraq. martha: why do you think he didn't do that. >> it would require that he would have to go back and say he was wrong in iraq, that the strategy that he advocated was not correct. he wanted a total pull out of iraq when things weren't going well for the u.s. there, and said that we couldn't win. he didn't think that the surge would work. all those things have worked. radical security gains were made and the iraqis were able to take over and i think that's what you're seeing now is iraq telling us that they in fact are politely asking us to leave but not granting immunity to u.s. troops. the...