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Command. general petraeus deserves a lot of praise for doing that, taking on a tough assignment. but president obama not only appointed petraeus, he made pretty clear that he understood there was a huge problem on the civilian side. i think he's going to move to correct that and also he moved away from the july 2011 date for the beginning of the withdrawal. in his speech wednesday, when he announced petraeus, he never said the word, deadline, timetable, or july 2011. when asked about it thursday, we saw that on the clip, he now calls it a transition phase. i think he's basically going to move ...

Closing the door behind us. we said as we begin a transition phase in which the afghan government is taking on more and more responsibility. >> we're not asking for victory by december or by july of 2011, we're not asking that afghanistan be stabilized 13 months from now. what we are asking is that by december we have enough evidence to demonstrate, if you will, the proof of concept. that the approach that we're taking is showing progress and that we're headed in the right direction. >> it certainly sounds a bit gray, doesn't it? one thing is it clear, they're going to have to listen to david ...

Ifrments. >> jamie: we did not say that starting july, 2011, suddenly there would be no troops from the united states or allied countries in afghanistan. we didn't say we'd be swiffing off the lights and closing the door behind us. we said, as we begin with transition phase in which the afghan government is taking on more and more responsibility. >> paul: president obama, a day after replacing his top general in afghanistan, saying a significant number of u.s. troops could remain there well after his withdrawal time line begins next summer. joining the panel this week, wall street journal colu...

Comment in "rolling stone" magazine led to his dismissal. general petraeus has his hands firmly on the wheel. what are we going to do in terms of pulling out? evaluating december, pull out in july? is that still the case? let's listen to secretary gates. >> we didn't say we'd be switching off lights and closing the door behind us. we said as we begin a transition phase in which the afghan government is taking on more and more responsibility. >> we're not asking for victory by december or by july of 2011. we're not asking that afghanistan be stablized 13 months from now. what we are asking is t...

What he said, it looked like he wanted to start drawing down troops in the summer of 2011. after what the president said yesterday, maybe not so much. watch this. >> we didn't say we'd be switching off lights and closing doors behind us. we said as we begin a transition phase in which the afghan government is taking on more and more responsibility. >> we're not asking for victory by december or by july of 2011. we're not asking that afghanistan be stablized 13 months from now. we're asking by december, we have enough evidence to demonstrate, if you will, the proof of concept. that the approach...