'We Can Win'

" pressure on President Obama now that a long drawn out battle of the election battle in Afghanistan is over. The president has been weighing a request from general Stanley McChrystal to send 40000 more troops there. A decision some lawmakers say really has been taking too long. -- just learned today that Hamid Karzai's challenger has dropped out so it looks like Karzai will be the guy going forward. Let's get to congressman Duncan Hunter of California in Iraq War veteran now freshman congressman just returned. From Afghanistan this morning you look pretty well rested their congressman thanks for doing that. -- obviously went out of the eight behind that. I would get your reaction to these developments out of Afghanistan which I'm sure you watched unfold as you were there. That Karzai's going to be the guy we're going to be working with going forward."

" You know in. Even prior to this everybody said he was -- he was gonna win this anyway so why did it it's interesting to talk about that. The the whole full political last aspect of this -- a dual dropping out of the what we need now is just four Hamid Karzai to step up he has to step up -- to reinvent himself. He has to say no more corruption with the right people in the right places hold them accountable at any -- let us work with them. Do you believe he will mean can he do what needs to be done. Yeah I think so and and we're going to be their health and we have an unprecedented. Unprecedented State Department involvement right now with the US military which makes us the best kind of effort to force ever. In the in the entire world and guitar world history we have the best counter absurd to force right now because of one RUS. Military would attend the Anbar Province and I I Iraq that proves that we can win this in the State Department civilian side now stepping up with us it's an unprecedented level of involvement with State Department. We can push him -- I think -- in the right direction he wants to win this we wanna win this we can help them. We can do this we can win it and we can be out there -- three of five year."

" If there's one thing that you wanna let you know constituents snow coming back from the region as you just have a couple hours ago. What would it be what impression what fact what is it."

" We can win it's it's pretty simple and and there's the the actual proof is. I Iraq we can win this report once something like this. Afghanistan is not Iraq to different places but we can win that you have the military and civilian side overhead Afghanistan are very confident that we can win this. We can do what they noted they know how to do this you the tools to do it. President Obama needs to give them the ability to win and that's with -- with. -- recommendation."

" Congressman and my co anchor John interviewed last -- Matthew -- lecture you know it's the American diplomat who resigned in protest over our policy there. And he specifically said that he said what happened in Iraq the surge there the way it worked cannot work in Afghanistan. He also said what we're doing there will not defeat al-Qaeda and will not stabilize the region."

" But I would simply say he's wrong and and -- look at people like Petraeus McChrystal. All the different marine commanders now they have Anbar experience. I would go with them up over him because they have the experience and Iraq and what they're doing they've already won something like this in Iraq and actually see those major similarities. And there's there's also the similarities but there's there there are also make the similarities. If if they say we can win this and they've they've already done -- they've already proved to us that they can do it. The let's go ahead and let them do it again."

" Congressman Duncan Hunter good to see you sir and after -- Thanks for it -- thank you very much."