Pakistan Will Remain Committed To Fight Against Extremism, Says Military Official

Brig. Gen. Michael Nagata, Deputy Commander of the Office of the Defense Representative in Pakistan, says he is still confident that Pakistan will remain committed to their fight against terrorism and violent extremism. (0:14)

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Terrorists Do Not Deserve Constitutional Rights, Says Sen. Lieberman

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I- Conn.) warns that allowing detainees the right to a civilian trial would be affording them rights they simply do not deserve. While their acts of terrorism can be seen as acts of murder, said Lieberman, they are also acts of war and should be treated as such. (0:23)


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General Petraeus Talks About Educating Soldiers

By Michael Ruhl, University of New Mexico – Talk Radio News Service

General David Petraeus says before Congress that it is important for soldiers to have an expanded understanding of Afghanistan, so that the army can function better as a whole. (01:18)
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ICJ recommendation to United States: Uphold humanitarian law

International Commission of Jurists, on Feb. 27, 2009, held a panel at the Brookings Institution to outline their investigation into human rights during counterterrorism efforts. Arthur Chaskalson, former Chief Justice of South Africa, reads the report's recommendation to the U.S. to reaffirm its commitment to humanitarian law. (00:18)
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Senator Joe Lieberman discusses how to end the war on terror

Senator Lieberman (I-Conn.) speaks on how bringing a better life to civilians in Afghanistan will bring a secure end to the war on terror. January 29, 2009, at the Brookings Institution. (00:47)
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Afghanistan-U.S. relationship will improve under next president

Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S. Said Jawad says that the U.S.-Afghanistan relationship will improve no matter who the next president is. He also says he is impressed by both candidates. (0:55)
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A nuclear Iran?

Middle East expert comments on the problems that a nuclear Iran presents and what the U.S. can do in response to this problem. (2:31)
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Complexity of Middle East culture important to understand

Middle East expert Reza Aslan says that Islamic culture is much more complicated than many in the U.S. realize. (2:31)
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Pakistan getting worse and worse

Former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlin says that extremism is at its worst level ever in Pakistan. She also says that our assistance to the Pakistanis must be about them, not us. (0:56)
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Rice: Iraq has distracted us from central front in war on terror

Speaking to reporters after the first presidential debate, Obama campaign advisor Susan Rice says that McCain was involved in the decisions that led to a focus on Iraq, distracting our forces from the central front in the war on terror, Afghanistan and Pakistan. (0:46)



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War on terror has financial costs

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) says that the "war on terror" not only has human cost, but financial costs as well. (0:38)
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Aslan sees layers in Middle East operation

Reza Aslan says we need to understand the dynamics of the Middle East much better. (0:34)
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Rabkin: Idea of Bush Administration impeachment is “so demented”

Jeremy Rabkin from the U.S. Institute of Peace says that if people believe that the president “knowingly, deliberately” got the country into war for reasons completely unrelated to national security, then “of course the action would be impeachable.” However, Rabkin says that nobody has tried to explain the “conspiracy theories,” and says that how anyone can even find it “plausible” that “such a charge” is worth investigating is “so demented.” (1:56)
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Cheney: US doesn’t torture

Vice President Dick Cheney says that the United States’s interrogations of al-Qaeda members is effective and has never involved torture. (0:43)

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McCain campaign adviser: Ideals will win War on Terror

Richard Fontaine of John McCain for President says that John McCain (R-Ariz.) does not believe that the War on Terror will only be won through the force of ideals. (0:19)
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The Bush Administration is begging for more troops from NATO

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relation at the Council for Foreign Relations, says that tension between NATO allies exists over the need for more troops in Afghanistan and lagging public support in NATO countries for participation during a conference call on the upcoming NATO summit. (0:56)
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NATO's future is not about Afghanistan

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relation at the Council for Foreign Relations, says that the strategic future of NATO is about more than involvement in Afghanistan and Kosovo during a conference call about the upcoming NATO summit. (0:32)
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EUCOM Commander: The enemy fights in the gap between the forces we have and the forces we need

General John Craddock, Commander of US European Command and Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that NATO caveats to their fighting forces put US forces at risk. (0:37)
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Navy Secretary says good pay necessary to keep sailors

Secretary of the Navy Donald Winters says that the pay levels in the '09 budget request are necessary to recruit and maintain personnel for the Navy and Marine Corps. (0:30)
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President Bush remarks before a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

The president brought the pool in for a 1.5 minute statement, saying they would be having a meeting with the Joint Chiefs about the war on terror and protecting America, and then they would all have dinner. The president praised our military and thanked the attendees, and then the pool was escorted out. (1:31)
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