has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean that superficially looks like that no no just to not only destroy it maybe i even invaded it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that there is no doubt that they should view it all the way i said i we did it for exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for a conversation think go ahead are you going to exaggeration or misrepresented misrepresentation i should go right ahead. right i don't think that you know us can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be in the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in or tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation unto it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actually actual intelligence and have the don't have the same there is definitely what

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean that superficially looks like that the guy with no notice to not only destroy it maybe even invaded it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that those are the rebels that they should do it all hype or live the way i said we did it for exactly even used a word for exaggeration or exaggeration for a conversation think just well yes go ahead i use a good islam because i did exaggeration and misrepresented my misrepresentation i should go right ahead. right i don't think that you know us can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be in the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in invade or tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation until it has actionable intelligence with the maid secondly we have to be very clear that they had actually acti

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean it. superficially looks like that but no no just in not only destroy it maybe even invaded it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that there is no doubt that they should view it all the way i said i we did it for exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for conversation think it's go ahead i think you. should have misrepresented my misrepresentation i should go right ahead. right i don't think that you know us can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be in the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in they tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation until it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actually actionable intelligence and have the don't have the same there is definitely what is happening in pakista

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean that. superficially looks like that but no not just to not only destroy it maybe even invaded it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that you know that they should have my view at all either like i said i we did for exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for a conversation think general yes go ahead are you saying is i'm going to exaggeration or misrepresented misrepresentation i should go right ahead. right i don't think that you know u.s. can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be in the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in invade or tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation until it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actually actual intelligence and if they don't have the same there is definite

afghanistan ten years later. more shooting more bloodshed and not an end in sight the guys there are in afghanistan fighting hard to help us the coalition forces were ten years old when this war started the expense of the war in afghanistan is staggering it cost the lives of nearly seventeen hundred u.s. soldiers an estimated thirty four thousand afghan troops and civilian dad and nearly half a trillion dollars poured into war and today anti-war activists say enough is enough it's being. carried out on the backs of the poor and on the working class. thousands gather at freedom plaza in washington d.c. demanding an end to the wars we want the war to stop now and one way is to stop the funding of the war in iraq and afghanistan and we hope that's what the people will really put the pressure on our leaders to do. the protests sparked this week marked both the ten year anniversary of the war in afghanistan and the first week of the new federal budget a budget which funnels an enormous amount of cash and so wars in th

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean that superficially looks like that but no not just to not only destroy it maybe even invaded it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that you know the rebels that they should have my view at all either like i said i we did for exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for a conversation think general yes go ahead are you saying is i'm going to exaggeration and misrepresented misrepresentation i should go right ahead. right i don't think that you know u.s. can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be in the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in invade or tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation unto it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actually actual intelligence and if

afghanistan is a strategic depth into pakistan. they created what we now as the taliban today under mulla omar. when they defeated the leaders of the mujahadin, they switched allianced and he became part of the taliban. mullah omar gave him position in the very first taliban government. now the strategy that we have in afghanistan is basically a strategy to pull out in 2014. the back stan strategy is how they can have their proxy in control of afghanistan after we pull out that that's what we see today. that struggle that's happening and the emergence of haqqani network as a major player in afghanistan. >> and in the an senbsence, the no effect we're going to have n on -- >> these people have been killing each other hundreds of years and will continue unfortunately to kill each other for hundreds. years. we need to leave but in a way we can guarantee afghanistan won't be a launchpad for transnational terroristic groups to attack the west and attack the united states. so in order to have the security guarantees, we have to have regi

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean it back. superficially looks like that go to the notice to not only destroy it maybe even invaded it one point ok because we change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that there is a whole day that they should do it all hype i said i wanted it for exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for a conversation think it was go ahead i said here it is i'm going to exaggeration and misrepresented my misrepresentation i should go right ahead. i don't think that you know us can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be in the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in or tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation unto it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actual actionable intelligence as the daughter of the same there is definitely what is happening in

troops in afghanistan, the u.s. is currently spending $2 billion a week, and is on pace to spend i year. question, what explains general allen's seeming divergence from the commander in chief, barack obama's deadline for withdrawal by 2014 december, which is about three plus a few months, years from now. >> right. >> is it -- this commander in the field -- denying the validity of the commander in chief? >> not necessarily, more typical not announcing your withdrawal date as being vague as how long we'll be here the one thing the pentagon does to the want for the enemy to wait us out and then suddenly move in as soon as we pack up and leave. but the fact is we can't stay there forever. we are occupying the place, making progress in the tribal areas. we need to wind our effort down and turn it over to the afghans. >> you think it was purposeful disinformation on the part of the -- >> well -- >> because if you pause that sentence, he's not saying we won't be out. >> no, it will be -- >> a long period of time [everyone

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean that superficially looks like that but no not just to not only destroy it maybe even invaded it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that those are the robots that they should view at all i said i we did it for exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for a conversation think general yes go ahead are you saying. that i misrepresented misrepresentation i should go right ahead. right i don't think that you know u.s. can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be in the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in or tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation unto it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actually actionable intelligence and if they don't have the same there is definitely

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. >> what does it look like -- >> in afghanistan? >> in afghanistan and pakistan. what does policy look like without help? >> much more difficult without pakistan's help. it is not possible. it would be much more difficult. a much smaller number of u.s. troops and support of the continuing support of an afghan army that is stronger and better equipped, better trained, better led. hopefully with a government that is moving in the right direction to end corruption, there is nothing that we can guarantee. only if they can do that themselves. i think it is in their own self interest as they respond to the needs of their people that more effectively than they have. that is a matter of very clear self interest on the part of any government including the afghan government. so the next major decision in terms of our presence will be the long term strategic relationship which is now being discussed and negotiated and also the way in which the reduction of our troops will continue. at what pace, between the end of next year when all of our forces, all the additional 33,000 f

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in afghanistan has not pas the ten year mug widely dubbed as a decade of failure by chrissake it's even called keeps on climbing more than two thousand seven hundred foreign troops have died during the financing of big devoted by the number of lost jason what level of pull. another day in afghanistan's southern battle and more casualties despite official claims that the war's being won two thousand and eleven is lining up to be the deadliest yet for u.s. forces fighting to tame the decade long taliban insurgency but things to improve medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previous conflicts are surviving these two soldiers one patrol in a vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded beneath him it took less than half an hour for a medical crew to pick them up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward at kandahar airfield one of the country's busiest for their injuries are bad but not extreme i mean we will most likely stay on base until they've recovered more severe cases such as if you teams are flown to germany for treatment all right you guys can go to this missi

this week the ten year anniversary of our nation's war in afghanistan quietly came and went and is now the longest war in all of american history and despite ten years of this continuous warfare our nation seems no closer to reaching any sort of responsible conclusion or any way to bring our troops home in fact things seem to be getting worse this past august was the deadliest month in the entire ten year long war with seventy one u.s. soldiers died and so far two thousand and eleven is on pace to be the deadliest year in the entire war surpassing two thousand and ten is the deadliest year which surpassed two thousand and nine is the deadliest year in the war as in over the last three years violence confronting our troops in afghanistan has gotten worse and worse and worse and last week the former commander of the coalition forces in afghanistan retired general stanley mcchrystal brought more bad news speaking at the council on foreign relations mcchrystal said that we are maybe a little better than halfway toward reaching our goals in this war he went on to say this about the planning

spending where has all the money gone we had overseas first of answers as the us marks ten years in afghanistan plus this new number do you believe. in jesus. right. but as soldiers search for their home away from home is the u.s. getting too comfortable in a country it promised to leave perhaps as it goes for a multimillion dollar expansion at bob graham air base. good afternoon it's friday october seventh it's four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you're watching r.t. well occupy wall street is still going on still going strong in new york city friday of the third week that we've seen protesters ranging from hundreds camping out to thousands on the streets speaking out against inequality and over grievances towards the financial system and of course wall street now this movement continues to grow we've seen demonstrations in cities including st louis dallas san francisco los angeles and philadelphia you're sanam behind me in boston to all over we've seen a sympathetic movement protesting in washington d.c. . this week as well and our viewers have been sending us stuff chad set

military and i think with his assessment from afghanistan. let's check some news in this hour heavy fighting continues in search of the most important of the remaining strongholds controlled by forces loyal to. the interim government forces have been facing theists resistance fighting built by that's not rained fire from rooftops in fierce street battles and there have been intense gone by. near the university to control the conduct his home city is crucial as libya's new leaders have promised to declare liberation after it's captured even a resistance fighting continues else way in the country. abbas has overturned and crashed into a cliff in west job leading dinies it killing four foreign tourists and injuring eleven the bus was carrying visitors from the netherlands belgium in india as the brakes failed when it was going downhill it comes just a month after a similar crash on the island killed nineteen people. six people have had a lucky escape surviving a plane crash in australia a small aircraft with five skydivers and a pilot on board c

do you like the invasion of afghanistan part of the ten year anniversary little town of undefeated no way in sight meanwhile became an office rising faster than that with the number of civilians killed this year alone approaching total coalition losses in a decade. while in london and demands on the streets of the country's troops to leave afghanistan to violet inflicting the unpopularity of the u.k. over the war which has claimed almost four hundred british military lives. and. thousands of people on wall street protests against france across the two are spreading to dozens of american cities from richmond total sunderland hitting the capital washington d.c. . welcome to our t. prince follow news live from moscow. our tommies story now the u.s. led war in afghanistan has now passed the ten year mark widely dubbed as a decade of failure by critics its human cost keeps on climbing more than two thousand seven hundred foreign troops have died during the fighting and figured most of by the number of afghan lives lost jason mortlock report. another day in afghanistan's southern battle mor

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean that. superficially looks like that no not just to not only destroy it maybe even invade it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead. i don't think that there is out there so they should have my view that although i don't like the way i said i would defer exact even use the word for exaggeration exaggeration for a conversation think go ahead are you saying you islam both are exaggerated or misrepresented by misrepresentation i should go right ahead. i don't think that you know us can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be in the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in they tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation unto it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actual actionable intelligence and have the don't have the same there is defi

they've gone through it in iraq and afghanistan. but you're also seeing younger soldiers, marines, airmen and sailors, people who were kids when september 11 and when the war in afghanistan started. so that's why you get the different perspectives. you get the people who came in 2001, who understood what the mission was when it first started. you have other people who don't really know why it began. so that's why we get varying viewpoints from varying people that you talk to. but for the most part, the majority of the people that i've talked to and various operating bases will say they know why they're here and they want to complete the mission. >> the morale of the american military always front and center. thank you very much, atia abawi on post in kabul >>> 20 years after she accused then supreme court nominee clarence thomas of sexual hair asment in the workplace, forever changing public attitudes about job discrimination towards women, anita hill. professor hill is now speaking out two. decades later, even though she lost that

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean that superficially looks like that like no notice to not only destroy it maybe even invaded it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that those are the rebels that they should view it all hyper lived to be i said i we did it for exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for conversation think general yes go ahead i'll use it again if i'm going to exaggeration or mis representing our misrepresentation i should go right ahead. right i don't think that you know us can despite part of war and despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be on the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in they tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation until it has actionable intelligence with made second we have to be very clear that they had actually actionable intelligence an

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean that. superficially looks like that i would know that just to not only destroy it maybe even invade it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that they're you know that they should have my view that all hype or life would be i said i would prefer exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for a conversation think general yes go ahead i use again is i'm going exaggeration a misrepresentation misrepresentation i should go right ahead. i don't think that you know u.s. can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be on the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in they tried to do you know another mistake in kind of an operation until it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actually actionable intelligence and have the daughter have the s

another day in afghanistan southern battle more casualties despite official claims that the war is being won two thousand and eleven is lining up to be the deadliest yet for u.s. forces fighting to tame the decade long taliban insurgency but things to improve medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previous conflicts are surviving but these two soldiers one patrol in a vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded beneath them it took less than half an hour for a medevac crew to pick them up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward at kandahar airfield one of the country's busiest for their injuries are bad but not extreme i mean we will most likely stay on base until they've recovered more severe cases such as if you tease or flown to germany for treatment right you guys can go right this facility was built to save critically injured american troops fresh from the front lines but doctors here also treat afghan civilians caught in the war's crossfire with nowhere else to go for help nine year old wally was shot in the head by a stray bullet earlier this year when u.s.

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean it back. superficially looks like that no no just to not only destroy it maybe even invaded it one point ok because we changed it seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that there is the day that they should have my view at all why do i in the way i said it we did it for exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for conversation think it's go ahead i use again islam goes on to exaggeration and misrepresented misrepresentation i should go right ahead. i don't think that you know u.s. can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be on the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in or tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation until it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actually actionable intelligence and have the dog have the same there is definitely wh

soon afghanistan it is really a horrible and depressing. it is it was a lookin full to witness the bleeding wounds of afghanistan society as a result of one war and destruction after another and it is it is it unfortunately after all these efforts and all this money and all these struggles at the heart of it a little the international community a local afghan government has achieved afghanistan today after ten years of us being there i think in many ways it is worse off not better off. what about this latest research that we're hearing over and over again lately that over ninety percent maybe ninety two percent of afghans have never even heard of nine eleven the cause of all this that kicked it all off and their countries evolvement in those attacks on u.s. territory what does it tell us about the way the u.s. is conducting itself and has conducted itself in the country for the past decade. i mean it's quite unfortunate. most afghan people neither have heard nor even have anything to do with what happened in one in nine eleven i wish you co

india is one of the largest investors in afghanistan. stronger relations is generating increasing concern from pakistan. they fear that india has an unspoken strategy. joining me now is a west asia expert for the observer research foundation. thank you for joining us. what does president karzei hope to get out of this visit? >> what he hopes to get out of the visit he has already gotten. he has signed a historic agreement. the circumstances of the signing of these agreements is rather more dramatic than the agreements themselves. these agreements have been in the pipeline for a long time. months and not years. the circumstances, the merger, the assassination, the peacemaker for the government, the haqqani -- these have been a dramatic backdrop. it requires a different kind of prominence in islamabad. >> how does india see itself playing a role in the future in the rebuilding of afghanistan? >> the term you used once upon a time, about two years ago, was a diplomacy by default. in other words, people said that everyone was getting involve

troops from afghanistan. demonstrators say huge sums of taxpayer money being spent on overseas military operations should be used to create jobs at hole. >> it's no good. we say health care parole now. >> the rally took place on thursday, one day before the tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan. more than 500 people took part in the rally. they were underby many anti-wall street protesters who have been demonstrating in new york. young people are upset about the disparity of wealth and high unemployment in the u.s. the u.s. government spends about $10.4 billion every month on military operations in afghanistan. protesters demanded the government should use these taxpayer funds to create jobs at home. >> corporate sponsored, corporate owned. think about who benefits from this the most. i don't benefit from anybody being in afghanistan. >> stop today. there's no reason to be there. countries around the world have come to have a very negative outlook of the united states because of these wars. >>

fire just proves that the war is still going on in afghanistan and u.s. troop levels there are expected to decrease significantly in the coming months were related experiences to the afghanistan nearly three hundred forty billion dollars that's almost a billion every month. and now here's what really kills me about all of this so usually the war is ignored by the mainstream media entirely don't forget that last year they only voted for percent or coverage overall through it but even when they do decide to cover it it's painfully shallow if not entirely misleading because don't forget when they send reporters in they're always embedded or being led around by military officials and getting what amounts to a propaganda tour let's also think of what this war in afghanistan represents the beginning of our global war on terror the beginning of a retaliation for nine eleven which is in the last ten years driven our policies and our values to become shadows of what they once were you know we had another war launched in iraq based on lies we had cia black sites pr

you go with limited aims and you go with a limited time period in moving to get to enter afghanistan in two thousand. two with no clear mission statement with no clear limitations upon when their lives were going to withdraw or indeed what their aim was is very very difficult particularly for a former military man to understand can anything good command for the thinking of a achieve anything positive that i think i think there is plenty of positive things that are being the being achieved that first and foremost is we've got to stop talking about afghanistan as if it is as if it is the will of the problem it's not it's a regional war and it stretches from the borders of iran to the borders of russia and encompasses the nuclear armed country of pakistan the presence of our troops in afghanistan or should i say more properly on the afghanistan pakistan border is as much about maintaining the relative stability of pakistan and the relative stability of pakistan's nuclear arsenal as it is about reestablishing afghanistan as a relatively civilized country what's the best possible outcome

marks ten years in afghanistan plus this please do not receive you land in the seas. but as soldiers search for their home away from home is the u.s. getting too comfortable in a country it promised to leave perhaps as it goes for a multimillion dollar expansion at bagram air base. good evening it's friday october seventh it's five pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you're watching r.t. occupy wall street is still going on still going strong and not just new york but all over the country as you can see behind me in new york this is friday of the third week that we've seen protesters ranging from hundreds camping out to thousands on the streets speaking out against inequality in this country and grievances over the panel system directed at wall street now this movement continues to grow we've seen demonstrations in cities behind me like boston chicago and los angeles also dallas san francisco philadelphia we've seen a sympathetic movement protesting in washington d.c. this week going on right now and our viewers have been sending us stuff chad subtle meye

jim maceda, nbc news, logar, afghanistan. >> what an incredible story out of afghanistan tonight. >>> in this country, the justice department today asked a federal appeals court to block alabama's extremely tough new immigration law which took effect last week. federal officials say the state law invites discrimination against all foreign-born residents and they are especially worried about its effect on children. our report tonight from nbc's kerry sanders. >> reporter: alabama's new immigration law is perhaps most confusing to children. in just one week they have been told teachers will not single them out, but when a group of students near birmingham with hispanic-sounding last names was told to assemble. >> our principal told us to come -- all the mexicans to come to the library. >> reporter: it was all tears. >> half of the kids were crying. >> reporter: as the kids enjoyed a birthday party this week they explained the school meeting was, in fact, to make sure they understood school officials would deport no one. >> we are already looking at about a quarter of our hispanic popula

led war in afghanistan has now passed the ten year mark it's been widely dubbed a decade of failure with nato troops no closer to victory over the taliban the human cost though keeps on rising both among the soldiers and afghan civilians who demand an end to the endless war and the violence brings down jason mattera reports . another day in afghanistan's southern battle for more casualties despite official claims that the war is being won two thousand and eleven is lining up to be the deadliest yet for u.s. forces fighting to tame the decade long taliban insurgency but thanks to improved medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previous conflicts are surviving by these two soldiers one patrol in a vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded beneath him it took less than half an hour for a medical crew to pick him up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward at kandahar airfield one of the country's busiest for their injuries are bad but not extreme i mean we will most likely stay on base until they've recovered more severe cases such as if you tease or flown to german

have learned particular from the british experience in the past that if you go into afghanistan you go with limited aims and you go with a limited time period in mind to get to enter afghanistan in two thousand. two with no clear mission statement with no clear limitations upon when their lives were going to withdraw or indeed what their aim was is very very difficult particularly for a former military man to understand can anything good come and you think if they do anything positive i think i think there's plenty of positive things that are being the tipping achieved that first and foremost is we got to stop talking about afghanistan and those if it is as if it is the kernel of the problem it's not it's a regional war and it stretches from the borders of iran to the borders of russia and encompasses the nuclear armed country of pakistan the presence of our troops in afghanistan or should i say more properly on the afghanistan pakistan border is as much about maintaining the relative stability of pakistan and the relative stability of pakistan's nuclear arsenal as it is about reest

if you read the invasion of afghanistan in parts it's ten year anniversary with the taliban defeat nowhere in sight meanwhile the human cost of this rising faster than ever get the number of civilians killed this year alone approaching total coalition losses in a decade of fighting. while the nuns and their demands on the streets for the country's troops to leave afghanistan utterly reflecting the unpopularity of the u.k. of the period which has claimed almost four hundred british military lives. and over the by wall street protests against trends across the yard spreading to dozens of american citizen cities from richmond to los angeles and taking big brother so washington d.c. . new so rush on the around the world this is i see with me us for all our thanks for joining it's the u.s. led war in afghanistan has not passed a ten year mark widely dubbed as a decade of failure by critics its human cost keeps on climbing more than two thousand seven hundred foreign troops have died during the fighting a figure moved by the number of and given lives lost jason mortlock reports. another day in a

you go with limited aims and you go with a limited time period in mind to get to enter afghanistan in two thousand. two with no clear mission statement with no clear limitations upon when their lives were going to withdraw or indeed what their aim was is very very difficult particularly for a former military man to understand can anything good command for anything of a achieve anything positive that i think i think there is plenty of positive things that are being the being achieved that first and foremost as we got to stop talking about afghanistan as if it is as if it is the kernel of the problem it's not it's a regional war and it stretches from the borders of iran to the borders of russia and encompasses the nuclear armed country of pakistan the presence of our troops in afghanistan or should i say more properly on the afghanistan pakistan border is as much about maintaining the relative stability of pakistan and the relative stability of pakistan's nuclear arsenal as it is about reestablishing afghanistan as a relatively civilized country was the best possible outcome here they p

if it seems we've been in afghanistan a long time, watch these boots. you don't cover much ground when you worry over every step. s it might take hours to cross 100 yards. the new lieutenant has learned, leave the path, go the hard way. >> better wet than dead. >.>> pelley: the home made mines dont spark underwater. >> if you can walk through water the whole time, you'll do it. >> pelley: durso went to west point because he wanted to serve in afghanistan. when we asked him why, he told us about a childhood friend who waited for a father who would never come home. >> the day after 9/11, i remember being at her house, and she got real quiet and she eventually looked back at me and said, "who's going to walk me down the aisle when i get married?" it wasn't just an event to me. it was people. it was my own people, my own town. to be able to see something like that and still decide not to do anything was like ludicrous to me. >> pelley: now he's learning this new terrain, like the long mud walls that support the grape rows here, they hide the enemy and slow

strategy in afghanistan has been based on the belief that developing afghanistan's economy and institutions will win over the population to support the afghan government even after international forces draw down. some analysts are concerned that the afghan economy may somewhere a steep depression -- may enter a steep depression as military involvement in afghanistan winds down over the next three years. what's the u.s. take to insure that this depression does not happen, and i know you did mention a new silk road, the new central asia/south asia trading hub that we're trying to create in afghanistan. will there be job training programs and community development so that that can overtake the military action? >> thank you very much, congressman. and thanks, as always, for highlighting the important issues and security concerns coming out of africa. i thank you for that, and i join with congressman berman in saluting the life of former congressman howard wulpe who i also had the privilege of working with both in the '09s and as secretary of state. with respect to the sustainability of the afgh

and she will protesters gather in central london calling for the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan ten years after the operation began. and other news the occupy wall street movements billed nationwide and despite being dismissed as honored guests there proving to be organized and in it for the long haul. it's three pm in moscow this is aren't you coming to you by now with our top story this saturday the afghan war is now in into its second decade but its original aims to crush al qaeda and bring the taliban to its knees are no closer to completion amid an escalating nationwide insurgency this year is already shaping up to be the deadliest in the conflict not only for cold us and troops but for afghan civilians as well as jason motluk reports now from afghanistan. another day on afghanistan so the battle for more casualties despite official claims that the war's be won two thousand and eleven is leading up to be the deadliest year for u.s. forces fighting to tape a decade long taliban insurgency and things to improve medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previo

another day in afghanistan's southern battle more casualties despite official claims that the war is being won two thousand and eleven is lining up to be the deadliest yet for u.s. forces fighting to tame the decade long taliban insurgency but things to improve medical capabilities casualties who would have perished in previous conflicts are surviving by these two soldiers one patrol in a vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded beneath them it took less than half an hour for a medevac crew to pick them up by helicopter and deliver them to the trauma ward at kandahar airfield one of the country's busiest for their injuries are bad but not extreme i mean we will most likely stay on base until they've recovered more severe cases such as if you temples are flown to germany for treatment right yes. this facility was built to save critically injured american troops fresh from the front lines but doctors here also treat afghan civilians caught in the war's crossfire with nowhere else to go for help nine year old wally was shot in the head by a stray bullet earlier this year when u.s. marines

led invasion of afghanistan passes the ten year mark with the taliban defeat nowhere in sight and human of course that's rising faster than ever. meanwhile in the u.k. enough is enough say protesters calling for a speedy troop withdrawal they gather in london to mark the afghan wars tenth anniversary. plus anti corporate sentiment spreads fast across the you watch the occupy wall street movement is criticized for lacking organization proves it's far from chaotic and is in it for the long haul. bus parties cause the team does of the land once rich with ground estates were prominent russian poets and princes made their homes i mean the people who now struggle to preserve what remains of that bygone splendor. it's five pm in moscow you're watching arts you live with me and you see now our top story the u.s. led war in afghanistan has now passed the ten year mark it's been widely dubbed a decade of failure with nato troops no closer to victory over the taliban the human cost though keeps on rising go among the soldiers and afghan civilians who demand an end to the aimless war and the violen

afghanistan ten years later. more shooting more bloodshed and not an end in sight the guy still there are in afghanistan fighting army out of the u.s. the coalition forces were ten years old when this war started the expense of the war in afghanistan is staggering it cost the lives of nearly seventeen hundred u.s. soldiers an estimated thirty four thousand afghan troops and civilians dead and nearly half a trillion dollars poured into war and today anti-war activists say enough is enough it's being. carried out on the backs of the poor and the working class. thousands gather at freedom plaza in washington d.c. demanding an end to the wars we want the war to stop now and one way is to stop the funding of the war in iraq and afghanistan we hope that the people will really put the pressure on our leaders to do. the protest sparked this week mark both the ten year anniversary of the war in afghanistan and the first week of the new federal budget a budget which funnels an enormous amount of cash into wars in the milit

and that was archie's military analyst with his assessment for afghanistan. news and breve this saturday night abbas has all the time and crashed into a cliff and was job they named an easy killing fool for interest in the injuring eleven the bus was carrying visitors from the netherlands belgium many india as the brakes failed when it was going downhill it comes just a month after a similar crash on the island killed nineteen people. six people have had a lucky escape surviving a plane crash in australia a small aircraft with five skydivers and a pilot on board question to oak creek surrounded by trees and it was preparing to land near melbourne the pilot suffered a broken legs and had to become freed at least two were winched to safety by helicopter one passenger was also was also injured but a number of were remarkably and hurt after the accident. in the heavy fighting continues in search of the most important of the remaining strongholds controlled by forces loyal to us to the leader colonel gadhafi interim government forces have been facing fierce resist

has to actually destroy pakistan to win in afghanistan. well i don't think i mean that superficially looks like that but no not just to not only destroy it maybe even invaded it one point ok because regime change seems to be a popular flavor of this year go ahead i don't think that there is all that or that they should view that although i blame the way i said i we did it for exact even used a word for exaggeration exaggeration for a conversation think general you go ahead are you saying is i'm going to exaggeration or misrepresented misrepresentation i should go right ahead. right i don't think that you know u.s. can despite what it wants despite the divergence i don't think that that should be on the cards that ought to be in the cards or it is on the cards it would be far too risky a strategy for you know for the u.s. to you know try to come in or tried to do you know another may second kind of an operation unto it has actionable intelligence with a mate second we have to be very clear that they had actually actual intelligence now if t

a decade of the invasion of afghanistan and the u.s. commander that is timely mcchrystal says america's only around hope way towards completing its military goals with the pricing of a simplistic understanding of the country partly to blame. the interim government schools and leave the biggest at a time to give them one of colonel gadhafi is long term a stronghold some are but face stiff resistance. and on go over the route of bias is gaining momentum in you'll president creatures from the occupy wall street protests in the streets of the big apple. as the headlines now let's go back to the i don't to show in washington d.c. . it's time for tonight's tool.

you go with limited aims and you go with a limited time period in moving to get to enter afghanistan in two thousand. two with no clear mission statement with no clear limitations upon when their lives were going to withdraw or indeed what their aim was is very very difficult particularly for a former military man to understand can anything good command for anything of a achieved anything positive that i think i think there was plenty of positive things that are being that are being achieved that first and foremost is we've got to stop talking about afghanistan as if it is as if it is the kernel of the problem it's not it's a regional war and it stretches from the borders of iran to the borders of russia and encompasses the nuclear armed country of pakistan the presence of our troops in afghanistan or should i say more properly on the afghanistan pakistan border is as much about maintaining the relative stability of pakistan and the relative stability of pakistan's nuclear arsenal as it is about reestablishing afghanistan as a relatively civilized country what's the best possible out