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Afghanistan long after 2014 when u.s. troops were supposed to come home. richard reporting yesterday that in the draft agreement, in a sense, the war in afghanistan just starts all over again. albeit on a smaller scale but with a time frame that stretches past 2024. richard telling us here is struck him that the afghan government convening a loya jirga. then today, nbc news reported that a bipartisan group of senators is going to bring their own amendment to the defense budget that would require a congressional signoff on any extension of the u.s. troop commitment in afghanistan past 2014. and...

Government and the afghanistan government, calling for an enduring military presence in afghanistan long after 2014 when u.s. troops were supposed to come home. richard reporting yesterday that in the draft agreement, in a sense, the war in afghanistan just starts all over again. albeit on a smaller scale but with a time frame that stretches past 2024. richard telling us here is struck him that the afghan government con eventconvening a jirga. then today, nbc news reported that a bipartisan group of senators is going to bring their own amendment to the defense budget that would require a congr...

Agreement between the american government and the afghanistan government, calling for an enduring military presence in afghanistan long after 2014 when u.s. troops were supposed to come home. richard reporting yesterday that in the draft agreement, in a sense, the war in afghanistan just starts all over again. albeit on a smaller scale but with a time frame that stretches past 2024. richard telling us here is struck him that the afghan government convening a loya jirga. then today, nbc news reported that a bipartisan group of senators is going to bring their own amendment to the defense budget...

As we look at how we return stability to afghanistan. >> you know, in the history of war, i've never seen a schedule to end one and yet we're trying to schedule an end to one. that sort of tells you, by trying to schedule an end it means there's no real victory. just an attempt not to lose. is that a fair way to describe it? >> listen, we scheduled it into our troop commitment in iraq, and i think we've seen relative stability since then. certainly not a return to it violence that existed earlier and i think we learned from that, that it's important for expectations to be the same on all sides...

Another decade to come, a presence that many have likened to our ongoing troop commitment in places like south korea. for example. a political guru larry sabato on the fallout. there will be many in the president's own party, larry, would will look at this and say, no, no, no, no, it is time to get out. make this a memory, now. and he is saying on the one year anniversary of the killing of bin laden, no, not now. >>guest: it clear he will stick to his timetable of withdrawal by 2014. what he is doing by this trip, the secret trip is to underline what happened a year ago which enables the unite...