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clouds of tear gas in the streets of cairo again as police battle protesters, we'll take you right into the middle of the clashes, i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the "situation room." a day after the republican candidates sparred and cnn's national security debate. mitt romney is back out there on the campaign trail. he picked up a new endorsement today in iowa. key conservatives have already held secret talks there. end of fining alternative candidate for the support. cnn joe johns is tracking the latest for us. joe. >> six weeks out from the iowa caucuses, if you take a picture, race ...

Soldiers against that hillside there. and they are conducting battle drills, react to ieds, react to ambushes and things like that. >> in terms of square of soldiers. >> exactly. >> they look organized. >> looks like a game of "risk." that's me and lieutenant colonel mike lows at the kabul military training centers. brigadier general paterson from nato training center. many of those acres littered with dead soviet tanks. in fact, there are so many dead soviet tanks on this training ground, that they use heavy equipment to move them around, to make them into boundaries for various training grou...

Of 1,500 or 2,000, those are soldiers against that hillside there. and they are conducting battle drills, react to ieds, react to ambushes and things like that. >> in terms of square of soldiers. >> exactly. >> they city organized. >> looks like a game of "risk." that's me and lieutenant colonel mike lows at the kabul military training centers. all 22,000 acres of that military training center. many of those acres littered with dead soviet tanks. in fact, there are so many dead soviet tanks on this training ground, that they use heavy equipment to move them around, to make them into boundaries...

It's not irrational to say for 50 al qaeda fighters, is this worth it? peter? >> well, the attack on 9/11 cost the american economy $500 billion and 3,000 civilians dead. the strategy is to prevent the area to be reclaimed by al qaeda who will use it for all sorts of training grounds as they did before 9/11. that's the calculation. >> is it doable? when you look at leon pennetta said, what's key is that the afghans accept responsibility, what's key is that they maintain what's happening. have you seen that on the ground? >> this is the crux of the problem. the united states is engaged in a ver...

The strategy is to prevent the area to be reclaimed by al qaeda who will use it for all sorts of training grounds as they did before 9/11. that's the calculation. >> is it doable? when you look at leon pennetta said, what's key is what's happening. have you seen that on the ground? >> this is the crux of the problem. the united states is engaged in a very comprehensive and costly counter insurgency campaign that's aimed at a fairly narrow goal, which is counter terrorism. those 50 al qaeda operate ibs that are believed to be in the country. and that number could grow if afghanistan spirals bac...