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Remember that progress is possible in afghanistan, because we have already seen a fair amount of it, in a variety of different forms beyond the recent security gains. for example, nearly 7 million afghan children are now in school, as opposed to less than 1 million a decade ago under taliban control. immunization rates for children have gone up substantially and are now in the 70 to 90% range nationwide and cell phones are ubiquitous in a nation where during the taliban days they were nonexistent, though the taliban tries to shut down them, ha lat, jalalabad, infrastructure has been repaired a...

Fighting, however, we must remember that progress is possible in afghanistan because we have already seen a fair amount of it in a variety of different forms beyond the recent security gains. for example, nearly 7 million afghan children are now in school as opposed to less than 1 million a decade ago under taliban control. immunization rates for children have gone up substantially and are now in the 70% to 90% range nationwide. cell phones are ubiquitous in a country that virtually had none during the taliban days though the taliban does try to shut down some of those towers at night, and doe...

Tensions as much as possible, and as the various blocs are trying to form coalitions to lead the government, they were conducting attacks to enflame sectarian violence and alter the outcomes of negotiations. and have this set of very good security gains is important for maliki who's attempting to forge a coalition right now. the reason is he's basically run on a platform that brought security to a war-torn iraq back in 2006 and '7. jane: lieutenant james stanley, thanks for your thoughts. >> thank you. jon: let's take you to capitol hill where right now a house committee is digging into what l...

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the u.s. soldier who was killed by supporting this assault. i apologize. i hate to mention the death of an individual american without mentioning their name because i don't want this to sound like it's just a line, but the family has not been informed yet and that's the only reason i'm not releasing the name of this young hero. we also committed to all the troops serving in iraq to continue to put themselves in harm's way in service of our country and in the service of a secure and peaceful iraq. to consolidate these security gains and honor the...

Degrade aqi over the past several months and years. our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the u.s. soldier who was killed while supporting this assault. i apologize, i hate to mention the death of an individual american without mentioning their name, because i don't want it to sound like it's just a line. but the family has not been informed yet, and that's the only reason i'm not releasing the name of this young hero. we also commend all the troops and civilians serving in iraq who continue to put themselves in harm's way, in service of our country and in the service of secure and ...