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40,000 troop level, and the need that he felt for an exit strategy led him to proclaim according to this book to lindsay fwra ham "i can't lose the whole democratic party" and that's one of the criticisms they're getting at the white house, there was too much politics involved in the decision-making process. >> exactly and to that point, thank you so much, mike viqueira. the book grapples with how the president was trying to walk the tight rope between the military's demands for more troops and growing opposition from the democratic base to the war in afghanistan and setting a withdrawal timet...

The in fighting in afghanistan? >> it does. people seem apparently shock that there's infighting in the white house. and i would be disappointed if there wasn't. this is a badly flawed strategy. it has a number of holes in it. not least of which is it's not properly resourced. if you were really serious about standing up a functioning nation state in afghanistan, which is our professed goal, you can't do it with even 100,000 troops. you need far more troops and to be there for a very, very long time. >> that's exactly what general petraeus said and i'll ask our graphic folks to skip ahead to t...