now in Libya conducting operations in the Sinai there now in Afghanistan trying to supplant the Taliban as

have Pakistan as a potential threat because the safe havens you have allocated the Taliban and yet Afghan

Afghanistan part of operation to defeat Taliban and al Qaeda militants operating include our province the

there is solved by by in electrical not that they require that what they need is they need an operating space that's what Afghanistan was for outright it

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

and prevent the Taliban from coming back it would be difficult to accomplish those missions %HESITATION at a force level of two thousand and

of our operations and a low of war %HESITATION if you see an al queda operative out in the open walking down the road we

the other hand if we lose in Afghanistan if in fact the Taliban is able to take control the country again will once again become a haven for

we are transferred authority for detention operations to the Afghans %HESITATION in March and

then the world is a lot simpler today our enemy they operate in caves in the mountains of Pakistan Afghanistan and

in the room they're required to stay and better for one year they will go right back to Afghanistan they were political and military leader of

why they used Afghanistan before and when the surprising how zero which was initially started by Syrians not by radical jihad it was a time where the good versus evil aspect of this was much more clear SI

in fact paid for by using savings from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan otherwise

and fixing large scale fraud waste and abuse in government contracts in iraq and afghanistan this

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