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Stability operations with the afghan local police developing a system that they are able to implement a sustainable system. it isn't about external forces or security, donations that goes back to the days when afghanistan was stable where you had the villagers volunteers for prog jekts f -- projects for wo or stability. >> with our military in education, finance, culture around the afghan people. we want to say again welcome to the states. thanks a lot. >> bravo to special forces and the afghan local police. why the half con trukted buildings fr -- constructed buildings from the economy are co...

Stability operations with the afghan local police developing a system that they are able to implement a sustainable system. it isn't about external forces or security, donations that goes back to the days when afghanistan was stable where you had the villagers volunteers for prog jekts f -- projects for wo or stability. >> with our military in education, finance, culture around the afghan people. we want to say again welcome to the states. thanks a lot. >> bravo to special forces and the afghan local police. why the half con trukted buildings fr -- constructed buildings from the economy are co...

Stability operations with the afghan local police developing a system that they are able to implement a sustainable system. it isn't about external forces or security, donations that goes back to the days when afghanistan was stable where you had the villagers volunteers for prog jekts f -- projects for wo or stability. >> with our military in education, finance, culture around the afghan people. we want to say again welcome to the states. thanks a lot. >> bravo to special forces and the afghan local police. why the half con trukted buildings fr -- constructed buildings from the economy are co...

Maximalist idea that u.s. military force is something so broad-based, so permanent, so infinitely resourced, so omnipotent that its goal could be the stabilization of whole foreign societies, it could establish trust in government and justice and education and utilities and local government and national government, policing, everything. it is a fantastic theory. but i mean the word "fantastic" literally here. counterinsurgency does not hesitate to call for hundreds of thousands of soldiers being deployed abroad for decades. seriously, for decades, plural. it is the kind of thing a country migh...

Large-scale prolonged stability operations are explicitly ruled out in this new plan. ruled out. no more iraqs. no more afghanistans. at least no more afghanistans after this current afghanistan that we're still in. the grand remake the world neocon wizard vision of the past ten years, what george w. bush explicitly did not run on but then brought us as president, as of today that experiment is over. it has finally been declared dead. for several years congressman barney frank has championed changes like the ones announced today. he joins us here in studio next.