Graham Questions General Dunford on Situation in Afghanistan

Martin thank you general thank you and your staff for doing a very good job a an exceptional job in difficult circumstances I'd

like to revisit a %HESITATION %HESITATION exchangeable center McCain about the %HESITATION al queda presence tribal

regions he said al queda still present on the Pakistan side of the border but there how did you determine not

as effective for did you say Sir what what I was trying to get at was I believe our operations in a course those are being does

not not being conducted by US forces %HESITATION Afghanistan but it seems to me that they're operations being conducted in Pakistan to disrupting al

has been helpful but it's been extraordinarily helpful and we have to headed disrupting affected all kinda as a result of our special forces in

Afghanistan army special forces do we have in Afghanistan today vote senator I can give you that number I'd prefer not to give it to you here absolutely

but this thousands I would suggest but that's correction or okay one of the reasons that we've contained out Kate is that we have other agencies in the fight but we have a Lotta Intel capability in that part of

well I guess my point is that when you look at a post twenty fourteen force it would be a %HESITATION very

unwise move to take that infrastructure down do you agree with that %HESITATION I do agree with that center so

along the %HESITATION travel regions in the inside of Pakistan is direct result of infrastructure that we have in Afghanistan %HESITATION

as well as the other agencies capability %HESITATION when you talk about a a %HESITATION winning

what would losing look like Sarah I think losing would look like Afghanistan devolving SK

Afghanistan returning to chaos or Afghanistan being a sanctuary for al Qaeda %HESITATION

if the people of Afghanistan once again being subjected to the oppression of the Taliban the nineteen nineties a

sanctuary from which the security and stability in Pakistan can be threatened all those would be components of losing and

the %HESITATION ability of allocated to regenerate would be greater under a losing scenario is that correct I

don't think there's any question about that senator and if we were seen as losing and %HESITATION Afghanistan to be hard to convince the Iranians to change their behavior I

think you're a credible outcome in Afghanistan certainly will influence those who would do harm now

when it comes to %HESITATION feature %HESITATION hands to be played our cards to be played %HESITATION the

follow on force let's say for a moment there were no troops in twenty fourteen we decided to pull out completely like we did in Iraq what

would your evaluation of the outcome be under that scenario I think if we did not have a presence post two thousand fourteen and

we did not provide security %HESITATION assistance to the Afghan nationally that forces post two thousand fourteen would

be a question of time before they would devolve so we would eventually lose all we have gained her I believe that Afghanistan would be a great risk of instability if we would leave before two thousand fourteen do

Afghanistan in the region and the sooner that we can I make this announcement and a and a bold way the better off do you agree with that I