Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101203:20:06:00
Afghanistan in the kandahar and helmand region. that's what he's been telling the white house for the last several weeks. that's what he's expected to tell them in this december review of the war. but the real question of course is there may be progress right now but has the back of the insurgency really been broken or are we just in another phase where the insurgency retreats a little bit, they regroup and come the springtime they're right back in the fight with new weapons, new training, new personnel? it may not really be until the spring that the u.s. can make a final assessment about this...