Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100624:18:28:00
First place is because 3,000 americans were killed from an attack launched in that region. we're not going to have that repeated. in order to achieve that, we have to make sure that we have a stable afghan government and we also have to make sure that we have got a pakistani government that is working effectively with us to dismantle these networks. what we then said was we would put in additional troops to provide the time and the space for the afghan government to build up its capacities to hold population centers that are critical, to drive back the taliban to break their momentum, and that...