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Ancient jedi a teacher to all of them, he said i did feel like an outsider. i was older and more experienced than everyone around me. >> he said they were children making important decisions, people he describes being in high school when he was cia director. this is the money part of the quote here, discussions in the situation room allowed for no discriminating analysis. keep in mind, these are the most significant national security decisions made by the most powerful country in human history. and there was no discriminating that analysis. it was all bush was terrible, we are great. we are th...

Diplomatic front the fighting inside syria continues in the summer offensive from both sides goes on. as of late it seems like the rebels have made some headway especially outside of damascus in the christian village of mull you will l mululah. those inside the village told associated press they have begun putting orphans in the caves around the village to protect them from the shelling. we have heard the rebels have taken it and president assad's future outside trying to work their way in. there are strange alliances going on here. it piers christians who long sided with president assad are t...

Targeted killings that are being effective because they don't depend on local security, they don't depend on hearts and minds. they are hitting specific taliban and al-qaeda targets whe whereas these massive operations that require sweeping across whole districts, those have not yet happened because they must happen in conjunction with afghan forces. and i guarantee you those afghan forces are not yet up to speed. they're simply not just weeks, but months, behind the timeline, and that's been the big setback for u.s. forces during this summer offensive. the u.s. commanders thought they would b...

That affected morale. they live day to day and their morale changes depending on whether they have a good day or not. they are very much into the mission. that doesn't seem to have affected them. they know why they are there and they have been warned long before they got here what it would be like. it would be a tough fight as the summer offensive unfolded. they say they are eager and want to get into the fight. they are waiting for the order to sweep across these areas of southern afghanistan and clear out the taliban. those orders have not come down. >> jim, when they come back to the barrac...

66, surpassing last month's record of 60 u.s. troops killed. joining me live from kabul, afghanistan, nbc jim maceda. can you explain what the situation is like on the ground? >> reporter: hi, there, nice to be out of inbed and talking with you. as tragic as 66 deaths come in the month of you'll, this should come as no surprise. u.s. commanders have been warning for months that as they fought through the summer offensive, that it would be a tough fight and that there would be more casualties. we did just return yesterday from a two-week imbed with a combat unit of the storied 101st airborne di...