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strike again with the united states he's making this direct connection. it's so argumentative. it's such a hype. you can have enough troops there. you could keep people there to keep al qaeda off balance i don't think al qaeda is going to strike again like it did before and i think anybody who makes that argue system overselling this war. >> the most likely scenario is you get to july of 2011 and there's some progress but not enough to warrant a rapid deescalation. what do you do then? do you deescalate anyway and name situation that's getting better worse? or do you stay longer? i t...

states he's making this direct connection. it's so argumentative. it's such a hype. you can have enough troops there. you could keep people there to keep al qaeda off balance i don't think al qaeda is going to strike again like it did before and i think anybody who makes that argue system overselling this war. >> the most likely scenario is you get to july of 2011 and there's some progress but not enough to warrant a rapid deescalation. what do you do then? do you deescalate anyway and name situation that's getting better worse? or do you stay longer? i think the important thing here...

strike again with the united states he's making this direct connection. it's so argumentative. it's such a hype. you can have enough troops there. you could keep people there to keep al qaeda off balance i don't think al qaeda is going to strike again like it did before and i think anybody who makes that argue system overselling this war. >> the most likely scenario is you get to july of 2011 and there's some progress but not enough to warrant a rapid deescalation. what do you do then? do you deescalate anyway and name situation that's getting better worse? or do you stay longer? i t...

>> to remind people, 46,000 killed or wounded in one of the smallest armies since 1939. i just gave an award to a dad whose son got the silver star. he wasn't there to receive it himself because he was back in afghanistan on his sixth combat tour, so at the end of the day tom ricks' superb article this morning in "the washington post" captured a lot of this. our way out is build afghan security forces. lieutenant general build caldwell is on the ground. petraeus is going to go in. he's got to build a police force and an afghan army that can maintain order. we don't have the political will to s...