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i'm a correspondent from afghanistan. i'm not talking is a woman in afghanistan. as long as i have remembered, there are reasons that afghanistan is not civilized. you have talked about pakistan. the pakistan government is not honest regarding afghanistan. what is the new policy of the united states to solve this problem. i want to ask president hamid karzai, as well. [speaking farsi] thank you. >> i know you will translate that for us. [laughter] he is very good. [laughter] president hamid karzai and i have in the past met with the pakistani president. t, as well as their teams and emphasized to pakistan but fact that our security is intertwined. i think there has been, in the past, a view on the part of pakistan that their primary rival, india, was their only concern. i think what you have seen over the last several months is a growing recognition that they have a cancer in their midst, that the extremist organizations that have been allowed to congregate and use as a base the frontier areas to then go into afghanistan, that that now threatens pakistan's soverei
i'm a correspondent from afghanistan. i'm not talking is a woman in afghanistan. as long as i have remembered, there are reasons that afghanistan is not civilized. you have talked about pakistan. the pakistan government is not honest regarding afghanistan. what is the new policy of the united states to solve this problem. i want to ask president hamid karzai, as well. [speaking farsi] thank you. >> i know you will translate that for us. [laughter] he is very good. [laughter] president...
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because the security in afghanistan the stability of afghanistan is not only for afghanistan it took effect disability and security up to region including russia so wonderful our product involved foreign policy in the fight against terrorism and extremism and stability of afghanistan in the region is a region of cooperation because the fight against terrorism and extremism is not only individual afghanistan it is a regional issue so if you cannot find a solution the additional solution for it will be in deep trouble because that will continue and take longer time is nato presence threatening your internal security in relations to your immediate neighbors we have. working from day one to sure sure our neighbors the presence of new to allied forces in afghanistan is for security and stability in afghanistan for the fight against terrorism and extremism is not directed against any other country and so far you have kept out reassuring gordon it would be neat to have a regional cooperation as i mentioned to to defeat terrorism extremism kabul has very good relations with washington and wi
because the security in afghanistan the stability of afghanistan is not only for afghanistan it took effect disability and security up to region including russia so wonderful our product involved foreign policy in the fight against terrorism and extremism and stability of afghanistan in the region is a region of cooperation because the fight against terrorism and extremism is not only individual afghanistan it is a regional issue so if you cannot find a solution the additional solution for it...
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which is afghanistan. afghanistan if you take a lobe, where is the last place you'd like to be tighting -- fighting war if you had the choice? you might pick afghanistan. land-locked, very great logistics environment. we can't get effective until we get in, we can't get in and get set until we have moved the people and equipment and the means to sustain them through the very center arteries, a couple of ground lines of communications. the air bridge, and so we are working every day to widen those arteries. and i'll give you again an example of the mrap atv, the atv because it's a military piece of equipment, we refer to move by air. and that means flying from charleston, where the government-furnished equipment are installed in the vehicle as they are delivered from oshkosh, flown to kandahar or bagram, there to be married up with a unit and put out in the field. we are in the interest of fielding them more quickly, and being able to use the air bridge for other free up capacity on the air bridge for other
which is afghanistan. afghanistan if you take a lobe, where is the last place you'd like to be tighting -- fighting war if you had the choice? you might pick afghanistan. land-locked, very great logistics environment. we can't get effective until we get in, we can't get in and get set until we have moved the people and equipment and the means to sustain them through the very center arteries, a couple of ground lines of communications. the air bridge, and so we are working every day to widen...
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afghanistan is the epicenter of terrorism. we cannot forget that it was the genesis of multiple attacks that killed thousands of americans, children, parents, spouses, neighbors. we must do everything we can to ensure it will not happen again and be used as a safe haven for those who seek to do us harm. last december after eight long years with no strategy in afghanistan, president obama recommitted our nation to defeating al qaeda and reminded us that the success of this mission requires us to work with our international allies and afghan partners and we are. the president also announced that our military commander in afghanistan, general stanley mcchrystal, the best we have in this time of conflict, would receive an additional 30,000 troops to implement this counterinsurgency strategy. these additional combat troops, combined with those already in theater, would allow our troops and civilian experts to partner with their afghan counterparts, reverse the momentum of the taliban and create conditions needed for governance and
afghanistan is the epicenter of terrorism. we cannot forget that it was the genesis of multiple attacks that killed thousands of americans, children, parents, spouses, neighbors. we must do everything we can to ensure it will not happen again and be used as a safe haven for those who seek to do us harm. last december after eight long years with no strategy in afghanistan, president obama recommitted our nation to defeating al qaeda and reminded us that the success of this mission requires us to...
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change afghanistan enormous costs and you've changed afghanistan period. afghanistan does not resonate. >> i have the greatest respect for tom ridge. excuse me. tom ricks, i have the greatest report for. mr. friedman was wrong about iraq. he said we couldn't succeed in iraq. we would fail and had to withdraw. enough said. >> the question still stands. what do you win if you win? how does it resonate? >> you win stability in the region. you win a reduction in the threat of radical islamic extremism. you win elimination of a goal for attacks on the united states of america. clearly taliban and al qaeda would work together if we were able to succeed and you don't send a message of an american defeat which would reverbrate throughout the region and the word. i'm confident with the right kind of military and civilian team in kabul that we can succeed and it will be long and hard and tough. >> do we stick it out at any costs? >> i sound tough to you but i just talked on the phone to a young man who is an amputee. i met him at walter reed. he's now at bethesda. i
change afghanistan enormous costs and you've changed afghanistan period. afghanistan does not resonate. >> i have the greatest respect for tom ridge. excuse me. tom ricks, i have the greatest report for. mr. friedman was wrong about iraq. he said we couldn't succeed in iraq. we would fail and had to withdraw. enough said. >> the question still stands. what do you win if you win? how does it resonate? >> you win stability in the region. you win a reduction in the threat of...
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afghanistan. if they sit down with the chamber of commerce, you not just hear about how many people are killed or how about the security is. people need to see the real afghanistan that is out there. it is going to take some time and some changes in procedure to allow americans better exposure to what the afghan people have to offer. >> i am is visiting scholar. >> from khuzistan. >> yes. -- from a news pakistan. >> is. -- yes. if you read articles in the united states and other countries, they expressed doubt about the achievable goals in afghanistan. how realistic are your goals? there is quite a complicated democratic and civil society within afghanistan. >> i do not expect the international community to come to afghanistan to build democracy in afghanistan. that is not part of the mission. the mission is to defeat terror. the mission is to prevent the imposition of terror and tyranny. it is not to build democracy. we do have to build a pluralistic society in afghanistan. that is what the afgha
afghanistan. if they sit down with the chamber of commerce, you not just hear about how many people are killed or how about the security is. people need to see the real afghanistan that is out there. it is going to take some time and some changes in procedure to allow americans better exposure to what the afghan people have to offer. >> i am is visiting scholar. >> from khuzistan. >> yes. -- from a news pakistan. >> is. -- yes. if you read articles in the united states...
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military action in afghanistan. the authorization for the use of military force passed by congress in late september, 2001, explicitly empowers the president to use force against the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks. president and those harbored them, and president obama is doing just that. at this particular moment we would demand a complete withdrawal of our troops from afghanistan by the end of the year without regard to the consequence of our withdrawal, without regard to the situation on the ground, including efforts to promote economic development, expand the rule of law and without any measurement of whether the whole strategy now being implemented is indeed working i don't think is the responsible thing to do. our troops are fighting a complex nexus of terrorist organizations, al qaeda, the taliban, all of which threatens the stability of the afghan government, and they demonstrated their ability to strike our homeland. if we withdrawal from afghanistan before the government there is capable of pr
military action in afghanistan. the authorization for the use of military force passed by congress in late september, 2001, explicitly empowers the president to use force against the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks. president and those harbored them, and president obama is doing just that. at this particular moment we would demand a complete withdrawal of our troops from afghanistan by the end of the year without regard to the consequence of our withdrawal, without regard to the...
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military in afghanistan. "mr. mortenson who for a time lived out of his car in berkeley, california has spoeng at dozen of military bases, seen his books on required reading lists for military commanders and had lunch with general david petraeus. he was recently in florida at centcom headquarters and met with the head of special operations command. his new book is "stones into schools, promoting peace with books not bombs in afghanistan and pakistan." here is our conversation with him, taped yesterday. a pleasure to meet you. very much so. for a man who tries to scale k-2 and find himself in a village of people who bring him back, so to speak and then -- pick up the story. >> 1993, i went to k-2 -- i went there in honor of my sister krista who died from epilepsy, to honor her, i got within 600 meters of the summit, didn't quite make it to the top so i came off the mountain and i was very weak and emaciated and i walked five days and i stumbled into a little village called korfe where i was befriended by the people
military in afghanistan. "mr. mortenson who for a time lived out of his car in berkeley, california has spoeng at dozen of military bases, seen his books on required reading lists for military commanders and had lunch with general david petraeus. he was recently in florida at centcom headquarters and met with the head of special operations command. his new book is "stones into schools, promoting peace with books not bombs in afghanistan and pakistan." here is our conversation...
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is there a future for afghanistan? an open interview with president hamid karzai is next on larry king. great pleasure to welcome to larry king president hamid karzai. he is the president of afghanistan. he comes to us from the presidential palace in kabul. thank you for being with us. we've just marked the ninth anniversary of this war. did you ever think it would take so long? >> no, sir. i never thought it was going to take so long. in 2001 when this whole effort against extremism and terrorism began, the afghan people and the international community joined hands and the victory came within a month and a half. subsequent to that, we all felt that now it was going to be the rebuilding of afghanistan and towards a more secure, brighter future. parts of it we achieved. parts it which was security and the absolute defeat of terrorism, not yet. >> larry: many americans, as you know, mr. president, are anxious about our being there. many are asking, what is the united states' purpose? what can we still achieve in your cou
is there a future for afghanistan? an open interview with president hamid karzai is next on larry king. great pleasure to welcome to larry king president hamid karzai. he is the president of afghanistan. he comes to us from the presidential palace in kabul. thank you for being with us. we've just marked the ninth anniversary of this war. did you ever think it would take so long? >> no, sir. i never thought it was going to take so long. in 2001 when this whole effort against extremism and...
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i think the issue for us, as we look at trying to create a stable afghanistan, relatively stable afghanistan, is one where we increasingly as mark noted, have afghans both at the central government but also the local government level doing the bulk of that work. if i could just add one thing, you know, we have often thought of and over the last eight years there's been a concept of trying to do this entirely from the top down, from the central government. i would also argue that there is never, ever been a history in afghanistan in rural areas where the central government has provided long-term stability. so we have to remember that we're not dealing with a traditional western state. >> and from "in the graveyard of empires" you write this. a second step is to find a better bounce between top down ever to build a viable central government and bottom-up efforts to support local actors. overcritical for establishing security and providing public services. charles, missouri i believe this. go ahead with your question for our guests. >> caller: good evening, gentle and. this has been alluded to
i think the issue for us, as we look at trying to create a stable afghanistan, relatively stable afghanistan, is one where we increasingly as mark noted, have afghans both at the central government but also the local government level doing the bulk of that work. if i could just add one thing, you know, we have often thought of and over the last eight years there's been a concept of trying to do this entirely from the top down, from the central government. i would also argue that there is never,...
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the problem in afghanistan contrary to what people believe, is that you can't contrast afghanistan. afghanistan has been conquered many times. the problem is of doing it and controlling it, which it really has been. i think that ago probably back to the persian cyrus to find anyone who has controlled afghanistan. one of the reasons for that is there's a desperate groups living spreadout and it's very difficult to control this type of collection of different people. now, of course, we're only going to try to hundred 40000 afghans, instead of the 400,000 that mcchrystal proposed. and the more u.s. troops that we put in there, the less incentive the afghans had to train forces themselves. now it's not clear to me what stabilizing urban areas will do for the fight against al qaeda, since any training camp would probably be in the taliban controlled country side anyway. you don't usually put a big training camp in the middle of downtown somewhere. now i've painted an awful portrait of afghanistan and predicted that iraq will again corrupt into civil strife when the u.s. begins to pull a.
the problem in afghanistan contrary to what people believe, is that you can't contrast afghanistan. afghanistan has been conquered many times. the problem is of doing it and controlling it, which it really has been. i think that ago probably back to the persian cyrus to find anyone who has controlled afghanistan. one of the reasons for that is there's a desperate groups living spreadout and it's very difficult to control this type of collection of different people. now, of course, we're only...
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>> well, the honorable member know we arehere in afghanistan at the invitation of afghanistan and a united nations mandate. we are not seeking to conquer afghanistan. it clearly is impossible. you only have to fly over and look down at the deserts and mountain ranges to know in a moment that it is not possible to conquer afghanistan but it should be possible to provide necessary support for the government of afghanistan to be able to conduct its own security and provide for the future of its own people. and the honorable member is right that there is great public concern about this. i don't want to minimize the difficulties or imply that things are easier than they are. but i do believe that if these three things are pursued successfully together, the military strategy, the economic strategy, and a political process, then it is possible not to have a purely military success but to succeed in our objective of an afghanistan that can look after its own security. >> does the foreign secretary accept that what the public will now regard as a timetable for the withdrawal of british troops will
>> well, the honorable member know we arehere in afghanistan at the invitation of afghanistan and a united nations mandate. we are not seeking to conquer afghanistan. it clearly is impossible. you only have to fly over and look down at the deserts and mountain ranges to know in a moment that it is not possible to conquer afghanistan but it should be possible to provide necessary support for the government of afghanistan to be able to conduct its own security and provide for the future of...
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the counterinsurgency in afghanistan will be won or lost in the local communities of rural afghanistan, not unusualan centers such as kabul, says the brookings institution. now, someone i'm not used to quoting. george will wrote in "the washington post" that, quote, counterinsurgency theory concerning the time and ratio required to protect the population indicates that nationwide afghanistan would need hundreds of thousands of coalition troops, perhaps for a decade or more. that is inconceivable. unquote. for how long are we willing to dedicate billions of dollars and thousands of lives before we realize we can't win afghanistan militarily? our biggest mistake in the afghanistan strategy is to think we can separate the taliban from the rest of the population. we cannot. the taliban is a local resistance movement that part in par sell of an inthe distinguished gentleman from nant population. we lost vietnam because we did not provide them with a competent government that provided them with basic security and a decent living. the strategy for winning afghanistan is simple. stop killing t
the counterinsurgency in afghanistan will be won or lost in the local communities of rural afghanistan, not unusualan centers such as kabul, says the brookings institution. now, someone i'm not used to quoting. george will wrote in "the washington post" that, quote, counterinsurgency theory concerning the time and ratio required to protect the population indicates that nationwide afghanistan would need hundreds of thousands of coalition troops, perhaps for a decade or more. that is...
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because the security in afghanistan the stability of afghanistan is not only for afghanistan it took effect disability and security of the region including russia so wonderful are a product of our foreign policy to fight terrorism and extremism and stability of afghanistan in the region is a vision of cooperation because the fight against terrorism and extremism is not only individual afghanistan it is a regional issue so if you cannot find a solution in addition to a solution for it we'll be in deep trouble because that will continue until long time sir you told the u.n. general assembly and i quote you to complement our efforts towards eliminating poppy production who wish to see greater action to counter smuggling of precursors into our country and to reduce demand and consumption of drugs in other countries as of today over two and a half million russians are addicted to afghan heroin this is where mr why has your administration and your allies failed to tackle the poppy production first of all the poppy production in afghanistan have to result of thirty years of war and lawlessn
because the security in afghanistan the stability of afghanistan is not only for afghanistan it took effect disability and security of the region including russia so wonderful are a product of our foreign policy to fight terrorism and extremism and stability of afghanistan in the region is a vision of cooperation because the fight against terrorism and extremism is not only individual afghanistan it is a regional issue so if you cannot find a solution in addition to a solution for it we'll be...
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afghanistan before we have finished our job then the taliban would just return to afghanistan and create again a safe haven for international terrorism terrorists could easily spread from afghanistan through central asia and further afghanistan could once again serve as a launch pad for terrorist attacks against north america and europe. ok and i'm the eternal pessimist i'm afraid i mean the what the head of nato had to say right there is going to happen i believe because it's all in the you know policy on afghanistan is not being made in kabul it's being made in washington and it's all about not foreign policy it's about politics ok obama's choices are very limited right now could we see the repeat of history. well yes i think so but i have to say i mean first on such of nato i mean nato is already leaving i mean you have this again saying we we are in afghanistan what date what is it what would you like we you know what's the we know what's the we can't solve it you know what it is in afghanistan effectively as a coalition of the willing as usual mostly britain and america and britain
afghanistan before we have finished our job then the taliban would just return to afghanistan and create again a safe haven for international terrorism terrorists could easily spread from afghanistan through central asia and further afghanistan could once again serve as a launch pad for terrorist attacks against north america and europe. ok and i'm the eternal pessimist i'm afraid i mean the what the head of nato had to say right there is going to happen i believe because it's all in the you...
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then we'll switch to afghanistan for three views. our top general there david petraeus gives katie couric his evaluation of afghan president karzai. we'll hear from republican senator lindsey graham just back from afghanistan. and greg mortenson the unlikely american hero and author of free cups of tea who has built more than 150 schools for afghan children. he'll tell us what he's telling our military people. i'll have some final thoughts on the down side of the internet. but first iraq and afghanistan on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. good morning again. well, it made for a dramatic picture. hundreds of armored vehicles in the dead of night crossing the border into kuwait. the last american combat brigade was leaving iraq after seven-and-a-half years. 50,000 american soldiers, thousands of american diplomats and contractors are still there as teachers and trainers. but the fighting units
then we'll switch to afghanistan for three views. our top general there david petraeus gives katie couric his evaluation of afghan president karzai. we'll hear from republican senator lindsey graham just back from afghanistan. and greg mortenson the unlikely american hero and author of free cups of tea who has built more than 150 schools for afghan children. he'll tell us what he's telling our military people. i'll have some final thoughts on the down side of the internet. but first iraq and...
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abandoning the afghanistan -- abandoning afghanistan just when we bear fruit i think would be a mistake. and although i appreciate the gentleman's leadership and incisive analysis which bears listening to, on this issue we disagree. and i would urge therefore my colleagues to vote no on the resolution before us and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i want to thank our majority leader for his participation and also for his cooperation in assuring that this debate could happen. you and our speaker and mr. berman are appreciated for your willingness to provide for this moment to happen so that the house could be heard from. so, thank you. i would ask, madam speaker, how much time remains in the debate? i'm sure we're winding down here. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio has 13 1/2 minutes remaining. the gentleman from california has nine minutes remaining and the gentlelady from florida has five minutes remaining. mr. kucinich: i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro t
abandoning the afghanistan -- abandoning afghanistan just when we bear fruit i think would be a mistake. and although i appreciate the gentleman's leadership and incisive analysis which bears listening to, on this issue we disagree. and i would urge therefore my colleagues to vote no on the resolution before us and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i want to thank our majority leader for his...
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afghanistan 2010 is not afghanistan 1980. we are not the soviet union, and we do not face a national upricing, like the soviet union faced. when we fought against the soviets in afghanistan, we had the benefit that virtually the entire afghan population was sympathetic to us. uzbeks, pashtuns. the taliban insurgency as aexpires to be that, but is in fact a pashtun community. the good news for us, the majority of afghans are not pashtuns. and even a majority of pashtuns do not want to see a return to the medieval hell that mullah omar created in the second half of the 1990's. smart policies can still reverse the momentum here. just a word about pakistan. pakistan is in the midst of an extraordinarily difficult transition, from military dictatorship to democracy. we should support this transition enthusiastically, but we should recognize this is pakistan's fourth attempt at doing so. you have to believe in the triumph of hope over expectation, to expect pakistan will get there, but it is in hour interest to encourage them to do
afghanistan 2010 is not afghanistan 1980. we are not the soviet union, and we do not face a national upricing, like the soviet union faced. when we fought against the soviets in afghanistan, we had the benefit that virtually the entire afghan population was sympathetic to us. uzbeks, pashtuns. the taliban insurgency as aexpires to be that, but is in fact a pashtun community. the good news for us, the majority of afghans are not pashtuns. and even a majority of pashtuns do not want to see a...
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should not be afraid of taliban afghanistan i don't believe so. i'm not i mean i don't want to apologise for taliban you know and i don't want to be accused of that or be seen as that but we have to recognize the taliban is not a monolithic movement the taliban is composed of many different groups within afghanistan that have diverse motives supporting the taliban a lot of times that being financial financial the sense of not only give you ten not because they give you ten dollars to put a bomb aside because in your valley on a give this group a couple thousand dollars and that's going to make that group the most powerful group in that valley a lot of the groups that support the taliban have very vocal concerns. things are not going to affect you and i here in washington d.c. or other folks throughout the united states also to the ties between the taliban and al qaeda are not really there there or certainly elements of the taliban that have ties to al qaida but you can you can isolate them do not because there is ten or fifteen or maybe even twent
should not be afraid of taliban afghanistan i don't believe so. i'm not i mean i don't want to apologise for taliban you know and i don't want to be accused of that or be seen as that but we have to recognize the taliban is not a monolithic movement the taliban is composed of many different groups within afghanistan that have diverse motives supporting the taliban a lot of times that being financial financial the sense of not only give you ten not because they give you ten dollars to put a bomb...
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pakistan afghanistan relationship but where does that leave mr karzai and his agenda for afghanistan and the american one. i think first of all to go back to our tolls point you this is a missile alliance between the u.s. and pakistan countries really don't have friendships they have relationships and they have interests and their relationships are based on interests so we shouldn't really see this as a permanent relationship there will always be differences and the baggage of history of the u.s. pakistan rollercoaster relationship rarely impinges on current decisions and perceptions inside pakistan as far as afghanistan is concerned in my view pakistan could certainly live with karzai provided it sees a stable of law an entity in which the bathrooms have a much greater say that's the kind of government that they could live with because they're supposed to them that are most contiguous to the area that spark assad on the border and if the post tunes are unhappy that the northern alliance or other groups that are traditionally closer to india have a greater say than pakistan will be u
pakistan afghanistan relationship but where does that leave mr karzai and his agenda for afghanistan and the american one. i think first of all to go back to our tolls point you this is a missile alliance between the u.s. and pakistan countries really don't have friendships they have relationships and they have interests and their relationships are based on interests so we shouldn't really see this as a permanent relationship there will always be differences and the baggage of history of the...
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in the first place what are we doing making happy farmers in afghanistan or is our job to secure afghanistan stop the drug trafficking create alternative economies and then stop the killing that goes around the world both by the terrorists and by the drugs themselves have killed millions throughout asia and europe because of coming from afghanistan and pakistan which translates thirty percent of afghanistan's drugs we're creating crime we're creating addiction we are creating terror but it is a mission that can be achieved it's not going to create happy afghanistan farmers at first until they had to develop alternative economies but do they really want an economy that's a narco state do they really want an economy that's building dramatically the addiction in their own country and around the rest of the world is that the mission that we want or do we want to achieve an economically successful afghanistan pakistan and at the same time stock the drugs that create the terror the crime in the addiction that should be the mission that should be far more important than happy farmers in afghanistan
in the first place what are we doing making happy farmers in afghanistan or is our job to secure afghanistan stop the drug trafficking create alternative economies and then stop the killing that goes around the world both by the terrorists and by the drugs themselves have killed millions throughout asia and europe because of coming from afghanistan and pakistan which translates thirty percent of afghanistan's drugs we're creating crime we're creating addiction we are creating terror but it is a...
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the large scale production of drugs in afghanistan continues and besides opiates and heroin afghanistan has constantly occupied the first place in hashish production to live in morocco behind. as we see afghanistan is the top producer of two kinds of. these amounts county will be sold as they exceed market demand according to all estimates two thirds of than a quarter manufactured us toward kind of reserved for generations to come. so this problem is very complex. even if some seasons. old enough crop says was the case last summer for instance you know so many of those reserves will come of the demand. in other words the drug barons are provided with the raw materials no worse than we are with wheat. the problem is that the number of drug barons grows every year but more and more people are getting involved in drug trafficking transiting and accompanying the supply. he should never said that let me quote more from what you said the events in kyrgyzstan showed that the narco cartels do not only crave power they're also capable of destabilizing the situation and provoking blanchard unquot
the large scale production of drugs in afghanistan continues and besides opiates and heroin afghanistan has constantly occupied the first place in hashish production to live in morocco behind. as we see afghanistan is the top producer of two kinds of. these amounts county will be sold as they exceed market demand according to all estimates two thirds of than a quarter manufactured us toward kind of reserved for generations to come. so this problem is very complex. even if some seasons. old...
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so long as afghanistan is afghanistan. so long as those incredulous pakistanis are supporting taliban operations and allowing al qaeda to roam freely in pakistan. pakistan is not a serious partner of the united states. they're not a strategic partner -- >> well, more so as we waver. one of the -- >> they were playing double and triple games long before the united states showed any signs of questioning its policy. that's pakistan. pakistan sees afghanistan as a strategic space for it to manipulate as part of its larger struggle against india. we are not strategic partners with afghanistan. we've got to recognize that. that's a fact of life here. >> look, one thing that we should not leave unsaid at this conversation is that if we withdraw from afghanistan and afghanistan or large portions of it come back under the domain of the taliban there will be human rights abuses there that will shame us. and we should put that squarely on the table. we can talk about strategic interests, and they are real, and we can debate those. bu
so long as afghanistan is afghanistan. so long as those incredulous pakistanis are supporting taliban operations and allowing al qaeda to roam freely in pakistan. pakistan is not a serious partner of the united states. they're not a strategic partner -- >> well, more so as we waver. one of the -- >> they were playing double and triple games long before the united states showed any signs of questioning its policy. that's pakistan. pakistan sees afghanistan as a strategic space for it...
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they find coming to afghanistan difficult. they find holding themselves in afghanistan rather more difficult. but surely they are around the world and in this region and in numbers that can cause danger and threat to us and we must continue to fight them out. >> larry: what do you believe is the story with osama bin laden? it's been nine years. he's not been captured. where do you think he is? do you think he's alive? >> well, sir, i find it very difficult to speculate on his whereabouts. i can tell you as much with certainty that he is not in afghanistan. he's never been here since we removed them from our soil nine years ago. we should all be looking for him. he's causing us all damage, and he's the cause that's led to the death of so many innocent people in the world. he, by his preaching and action, causes to suffer and die and get mutilated. it's our human responsibility to get rid of him. >> larry: if he is in pakistan, should they be doing more? >> well, if he is there -- i don't know if he's there. but if he's there, o
they find coming to afghanistan difficult. they find holding themselves in afghanistan rather more difficult. but surely they are around the world and in this region and in numbers that can cause danger and threat to us and we must continue to fight them out. >> larry: what do you believe is the story with osama bin laden? it's been nine years. he's not been captured. where do you think he is? do you think he's alive? >> well, sir, i find it very difficult to speculate on his...
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but our afghanistan -- are afghanistan's tribal disputes going to be tried on the battlefield? who is willing to stand at the front of this chamber and declare how many american lives that is worth? mr. speaker, president obama has said he will begin to bring our troops home next july. but he didn't say when the job will be complete. representative kucinich says, let's bring them home by new year's eve this year. we must continue to debate this issue, debate it today, debate it on the supplemental, debate it on defense bills. let's debate it when we're begging for resources so our kids can go to quality schools, when we're trying to find the money so that he have american has a decent job and affordable health care, so we can maintain our roads and bridges and waterways, so we can guard our ports and borders, so we can keep our cops on the beat and our seniors safe in their homes. let's debate the war in afghanistan. how we will pay for it, how it will end, when it will end and when our sons and daughters, husband and wives, friends and neighbors will be able to come home. let
but our afghanistan -- are afghanistan's tribal disputes going to be tried on the battlefield? who is willing to stand at the front of this chamber and declare how many american lives that is worth? mr. speaker, president obama has said he will begin to bring our troops home next july. but he didn't say when the job will be complete. representative kucinich says, let's bring them home by new year's eve this year. we must continue to debate this issue, debate it today, debate it on the...
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roundup of the week the war in afghanistan enters its tenth year making it one of the longest in u.s. military history as he is already the deadliest nato troops in a decade of conflict. war torn afghanistan remains the world's largest exporter of opium with over a third of it ending up in russia and russia's counter narcotics chief explain to r.t. just why the war on drugs is not being one that's our special interview coming your way shortly. today we're talking to the head of russia's dog control service and mr pena thank you very much for joining us today first off let's talk about afghanistan afghanistan is the number one producer all opiates in the world when we talk about the transfer of the drugs to russia what kind of amounts of drugs are we talking about. afghanistan produced about seven thousand tons of opium last year which is equivalent to seven hundred tons of heroin we believe that about thirty six of these tons end up in russia that's a lot about five billion doses and it's about thirty five percent of all drugs exported from of ghana stan because in fact afghanistan ex
roundup of the week the war in afghanistan enters its tenth year making it one of the longest in u.s. military history as he is already the deadliest nato troops in a decade of conflict. war torn afghanistan remains the world's largest exporter of opium with over a third of it ending up in russia and russia's counter narcotics chief explain to r.t. just why the war on drugs is not being one that's our special interview coming your way shortly. today we're talking to the head of russia's dog...
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and 2007 to afghanistan. my wife and three kids have lived at camp pendleton, they lived on the base. i know what families in the military live like. i know what marines on the ground are going through right now. i know what victory costs. i know what victory takes and what it doesn't take is a misrepresenting resolution that's going to hurt our military when it needs us the most. did i enjoy going overseas, did i enjoy leaving my three small kids and family behind, did i enjoy leaving steak and all the great comforts of this nation behind? no. but it was worth it because i know in my heart that what we're doing in afghanistan is going to make my children not have to go over and fight the same islamic fascists that we're over there fighting now. i know we're going to have a safer country because of me and people like me and people serving over there right now because they're over there fighting my kids won't have to. so was it fun going to war? no. was it worth it? yes. and i urge my colleagues to vote no on
and 2007 to afghanistan. my wife and three kids have lived at camp pendleton, they lived on the base. i know what families in the military live like. i know what marines on the ground are going through right now. i know what victory costs. i know what victory takes and what it doesn't take is a misrepresenting resolution that's going to hurt our military when it needs us the most. did i enjoy going overseas, did i enjoy leaving my three small kids and family behind, did i enjoy leaving steak...
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troops in afghanistan. tom ricks, author of the bestseller "gamble" about the war in iraq and author and combat veteran of afghanistan, wes moore and retired army general barry mccaffrey and a look back in our "meet the press" minute when president truman clashed with his top general. >>> good. 311 soldiers have died this year in afghanistan, the latest just yesterday by an improvised explosive device in the south of the country. for coalition forces, june is now by far the deadliest month since the war began in late 2001. the g-8 summit in toronto, president obama and david cameron and other world leaders decided to set a timetable of five years for withdrawal of military forces from afghanistan. this as "the new york times" reports this morning of growing concern in afghanistan over president karzai's efforts to negotiate with the taliban and bring them into agreement with the afghan government. here live from kabul, richard engel. i want to start with that story in "the new york times" and this concern a
troops in afghanistan. tom ricks, author of the bestseller "gamble" about the war in iraq and author and combat veteran of afghanistan, wes moore and retired army general barry mccaffrey and a look back in our "meet the press" minute when president truman clashed with his top general. >>> good. 311 soldiers have died this year in afghanistan, the latest just yesterday by an improvised explosive device in the south of the country. for coalition forces, june is now by...
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we do in afghanistan. the plan is for them to draw down significantly by this summer and be out of their completely by next year. much of that will the plan on security conditions on the ground. host: mike, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. the previous caller was exactly right. why are we there? host: enter your own question. -- answer your own question. caller: the military industrial complex is too fat. we will not allow. host: brief comments there. jesse, -- we will not pull out . host: brief comments there. jesse, north carolina. caller: we may withdraw a token amount of troops in iraq. we have troops in afghanistan with a partnership with pakistan. all of these countries around iran. to what extent does the gentleman think our presence in the middle east have to do with iran? guest: first of all, the withdrawal from iraq is not a token. they are likely to keep drawing down very significantly. going down to about 50,000. next year continuing to do so. i also do not think that our pre
we do in afghanistan. the plan is for them to draw down significantly by this summer and be out of their completely by next year. much of that will the plan on security conditions on the ground. host: mike, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. the previous caller was exactly right. why are we there? host: enter your own question. -- answer your own question. caller: the military industrial complex is too fat. we will not allow. host: brief comments there. jesse, -- we will not...
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as a stable one in afghanistan. today if you are in pakistan and a national security adviser or and afghan adviser to president karzai, you are operating under the assumption that the u.s. is leaving. the clock is running out. we have to dispel that notion. >> nato said 2014. from 2010, that looks far off, but all the sudden time tends to creep up. does that not still send that message? we are exiting. >> platts acknowledge there were we were this time last year, we were talking about -- let's acknowledge where we were "the star-ledger" we were talking about 2011. it spurred a movement on the part of the afghan government. i think it was a strategic blunder to put that 2011 marker out there in the december 1 speech. >> do you agree? >> i think it has worked against our interests. >> that is less than a strategic blunder. >> 12 months later, we are talking about 2014. we were able to get nato allies to commit to 2014. the genesis of that 2014 state came from president karzai, from his second inaugural address. one of
as a stable one in afghanistan. today if you are in pakistan and a national security adviser or and afghan adviser to president karzai, you are operating under the assumption that the u.s. is leaving. the clock is running out. we have to dispel that notion. >> nato said 2014. from 2010, that looks far off, but all the sudden time tends to creep up. does that not still send that message? we are exiting. >> platts acknowledge there were we were this time last year, we were talking...
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afghanistan is not as. of course, making it much easier for the girls, unlike iraq the afghan taliban have a sanctuary in pakistan. which is supposedly our ally, but which only goes after the pakistani taliban and not be afghan taliban. the afghan taliban is always useful to the pakistani government to counter the indian influence in afghanistan, especially when the u.s. is likely to leave as the president signaled his intention to at least are pulling out troops by 2011. so that was i think a message to the pakistanis that perhaps the elements of the pakistani military, that they should keep supporting the afghan taliban. now in iraq, the insurgency was primarily urban, whereas in afghanistan it's a rural. because of the war, the civil war and the assassinations, in addition, the tribal leadership is weaker in iraq -- or is weaker in afghanistan than in iraq, and there is no awakening movement and afghanistan. the taliban are afghans, who for the most part don't target civilians. whereas al qaeda and iraq
afghanistan is not as. of course, making it much easier for the girls, unlike iraq the afghan taliban have a sanctuary in pakistan. which is supposedly our ally, but which only goes after the pakistani taliban and not be afghan taliban. the afghan taliban is always useful to the pakistani government to counter the indian influence in afghanistan, especially when the u.s. is likely to leave as the president signaled his intention to at least are pulling out troops by 2011. so that was i think a...
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relationship with afghanistan. for political consumption the white house says hamid karzai did make that threat. never taken seriously here, but he said if you keep laying on me i might join the taliban or i might think about that. all that led the white house to dramatically shift the way the issues are being presented publicly. now it's all about diplomatic buttering up. this is prime diplomatic real estate for any head of state. he can say to the world, i was in the east room with the president of the united states. i stood next to him. we are partners in afghanistan. my reputation is being elevated. my visibility is being elevated by that. my stature is being elevated by that. all that is to make karzai a more willing partner than somebody who flirted with being akin to an adversary. jon: we have 80,000 troops in afghanistan. you will want to hear what the afghan president and our president has to say. jane: we are getting breaking news from a gulf oil spill. what investigators say the documents from the oil co
relationship with afghanistan. for political consumption the white house says hamid karzai did make that threat. never taken seriously here, but he said if you keep laying on me i might join the taliban or i might think about that. all that led the white house to dramatically shift the way the issues are being presented publicly. now it's all about diplomatic buttering up. this is prime diplomatic real estate for any head of state. he can say to the world, i was in the east room with the...
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the world are unable to consume everything that comes out of afghanistan so afghanistan stores a huge amount of drugs russia and other countries estimate it's about thirteen to fifteen thousand tons of opium so even if drug production stops in afghanistan the country will still be able to supply the international market with heroin for another twenty or even thirty years. what about the main mode of transportation of the drugs could you talk about the roads or the countries to which the drug trade flows into russia. you there is the northern route which is sometimes called the northern silk route after the seventeenth century trade route the reason the silk route is popular is because after the collapse of the soviet union munitions are merged and while their borders exist on paper in reality they're not even properly guarded so essentially there are no effective borders between afghanistan and russia with such poor borders it's very easy for traffickers to transport drugs the biggest part of drugs flows through stand and kazakstan and onward to russia another part goes through iran a
the world are unable to consume everything that comes out of afghanistan so afghanistan stores a huge amount of drugs russia and other countries estimate it's about thirteen to fifteen thousand tons of opium so even if drug production stops in afghanistan the country will still be able to supply the international market with heroin for another twenty or even thirty years. what about the main mode of transportation of the drugs could you talk about the roads or the countries to which the drug...
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asseverate war veteran who fought in afghanistan in the eighty's says that the u.s. is failing in its campaign because even after nine years it still doesn't understand the country or its people for sealy cuts off spoke to alter his. special interview coming next. but first mr kraft well thank you for joining us today sochi has hosted a summit of the second of its kind after the july session last year and. this is me russia is strengthening its position in the region where it's always been present and is opening up new opportunities for cooperation primarily with afghanistan and pakistan things than the with pakistan you know do much better if you have three minutes of which. i think that russia is trying to strengthen its position russia is trying to reserve its position in the settlement process in afghanistan via this quartet to achieve this goal which is really important for both afghanistan and for the region as a whole as well as for russia these regular events take place pakistan has one view on the afghan crisis stan has another view russia may have yet anoth
asseverate war veteran who fought in afghanistan in the eighty's says that the u.s. is failing in its campaign because even after nine years it still doesn't understand the country or its people for sealy cuts off spoke to alter his. special interview coming next. but first mr kraft well thank you for joining us today sochi has hosted a summit of the second of its kind after the july session last year and. this is me russia is strengthening its position in the region where it's always been...