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Stop you, wasn't the task as stated after 9/11 to break up al-qaeda in afghanistan, root out the taliban and find usama bin laden, haven't we done those things to the best of our ability? >> no, we haven't. the task was to make sure the taliban didn't go a toe hold once again in afghanistan and provide a safe haven for al-qaeda. that task has not yet been completed, and i'm for getting the job done. let me point this out. we lost interest in afghanistan once before, when the soviets pulled out, we sort of forgot about afghanistan. we paid for that with the loss of 3000 of our citizens in new y...

Ending, and so that battle continues. certainly, i think it's very premature to say that just because we cut off the head of this one snake it signals some sort of end of the war on terror. alisyn: but you know -- and it could be nothing further from the truth. alisyn: many people agree with you but people like a timeline. is there any way to put now our stated goal into a time frame? >> you know, we didn't ask for a timeline in the world war ii, the timeline was when we retook paris, berlin, when hitler was killed and when the nazi threat was over with. the timeline was less important than th...

An admirable job there. he's going to be moving over to the cia, but before he does that, we're due for a report sometime in late spring or early summer from his person. so i think we've made progress, i don't think the death of bin laden really changes the fact that we have a mission to do that's not complete yet in afghanistan. alisyn: let me tell you what senator richard lugar said, the top republican as you know on the senate foreign relations committee he said tz exceedingly difficult to conclude our vast expenditures represent an allocation of our financial assets. your response. >> my r...

What you're saying is that that task could be indefinite. let me play for you something that president bush said back in september 2001, he had a different stated goal about the war in afghanistan, and let's listen to that. >> our war on terror begins with al-qaeda, but it does not end there. it will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated. alisyn: it will not end until every terrorist of global reach has been stopped and defeated. that's forever. >> well, and that doesn't mean we have to have boots on the ground everywhere. but the fact is al-...