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They know friends and minutes have lost someone as a result of war. no one wants war. >> is occasionally necessary h we go to war sometimes because there are objective wes feel we need to attain. i want to begin with you, spencer, you covered this for years, you have been to afghanistan a number of times what is the objective at this point we are trying to attain what is our purpose in afghanistan? >> one stated purpose and another unstate bud probably more serious one. the stated purpose is that we are going to train the afghan security forces and then get them in a position to take over come...

Adjacent neighborhoods where perhaps insurgents you can use as a staging point and clear the neighborhoods and expand. the an jal jie an ink spot. >> strength in one place creates strength in others. >> it can if it works well. with afghanistan isn't like that villages are cut off from one another for a tremendous, very distance. there around roads in afghanistan, hard to get from one place to another. when i was in one province traveling down dirt roads in a humvee, we came to a point in a road traveling over a quasibridge, the bridge itself, the passage was just too far this froert axle of t...

Why do you try to alienate karzai when you still have to work with him? and karzai opposed the troop surge from the beginning and karzai is kind of a peacenik. karzai didn't want the troop surge and i think you see that now this public statement and with what he is saying and a very perilous point. the american involvement in afghanistan has essentially come to -- it is coming to a close. >> those public statements i think are worth evaluating for a minute more because you are getting very weird interpretations of them what karzai says is he wants u.s. troops to pull took their operating bases...