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Deals with some elements of the taliban. probably accommodating them in southern afghanistan, where they would become part of the new governing coalition in local areas. this is what happened in iraq, where large groups of sunni tribes moved from fighting the baghdad government to being allied with it. if the united states cannot make such deals in afghanistan, all the troops and all the time will not help. that's the real problem with the president's strategy, not whether the troops draw down now or a year from now. on the show today we will put all these questions about afghanistan to the pr...

Because it all depends on the size of the economy. so really, the central question, we're talking about stimulus versus deficits. do you want to tax more, do you want to spend more? the real central issue is how do you get the economy to grow? a half percent or extra percent a year of economic growth solves a heck of a lot of problems, and that really, i think, needs to be the central question. >> but not all of them. you can have the economy growing robustly, steven, and suddenly you can turn that whole situation upside down. no matter what, don't you have to have either cutting spending or r...

Because it all depends on the size of the economy. so really the central question, we're talking about sort of stimulus versus deficits, do you want to tax more, do you want to spend more. the real center issue is how do you get the economy to grow. and a half a percent or an extra percent a year of economic growth solves a heck of a lot of problems. and that really i think needs to be the central question of the debate. >> you can have the economy growing robustly, steven, and then suddenly you turn that whole situation upside down. no matter what, don't you have to have either cutting spendi...

Probably accommodating them in southern afghanistan, where they would become part of the new governing coalition in local areas. this is what happened in iraq, where large groups of sunni tribes moved from fighting the baghdad government to being allied with it. if the united states cannot make such deals in afghanistan, all the troops and all the time will not help. that's the real problem with the president's strategy, not whether the troops draw down now or a year from now. on the show today we will put all these questions about afghanistan to the president's high representative to the regi...