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Generals and ceos because they are powerful and because they make these decisions and they are decisive. and yet these are the same men who are behind closed doors, according to the reporting, being overruled, for example, on north korea. we don't know what motivated this. might have been that tillerson was successful in getting that troop increase in afghanistan but the price he pays is the president does go out on twitter and undercut him. unfortunately for the world powers who are watching, some of that sense of security must feel a little bit threatened when the president then goes out and...

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Right move. jake? >> thousands of u.s. servicemembers in afghanistan. america's longest war has been left in limbo since president trump took office, at least in temperatures of a new direction. so what are the options for the way forward? we took a deeper look at the potential strategies presented to the commander in chief. >> look at afghanistan. what a mess. >> reporter: some 8400 service members are currently in afghanistan. and president trump is likely to commit at many as 4,000 more. >> it's a very big decision for me. i took over a mess. >> reporter: a troop increase is not the preside...

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You think the answer should be? you don't want to pull out and accept the defeat, do you? >> i'm not suggesting pull out. we can leave 1,000 to 5,000 soldiers to fight terrorism fight and help train, but we've got 65 million refugees in the world. 25 million are kids. state-sponsored terror and you have countries that are unstable like libya and like syria and like iraq that are without getting at those bigger issues, afghanistan cannot be won the way we're doing it. you're going to hear more troop increase but has to be a change in how we fight the war on terror. killing more terrorists is no...