Sec. of State Clinton Takes Responsibility for Delay in Afghanistan Decision

Curry: With all due respect to the Administration, what is taking so long?

Sec. Clinton: Well first of all, every one of those deaths and all of the injuries of any of our men and women in uniform, weighs heavily on all of us who are sitting around the table in the situation room. And what is going on in this analysis is the kind of deep, stripped down investigation of assumptions. Because, when we make this decision, when we recommend to the President what we believe he should do, we're going to be all in.

Curry: If the President decides not to send more troops to Afghanistan, morally, can he still keep 68 thousand troops there.

Sec. Clinton: I want to not only guarantee you, but guarantee all of your listeners that this process will result in a very well thought out approach and the number of troops will reflect how we are going to implement the strategy. Now I know there are many Americans who say "Get out of Afghanistan, bring em all home" and there are others who say "Put in hundreds of thousands more". But I think neither extreme is really focused on the situation as we are.