UNITED STATES AND CALIBAN HAVE
AGREED IN PRINCIPLE TO A
FRAMEWORK WITH WHICH TO
NEGOTIATE A FORMAL END TO WHAT
HAS BEEN A SEEMINGLY ENDLESS
WAR.
JOINING US TONIGHT, RETIRED
FOUR-STAR STRATEGIC ANALYST,
GENERAL JACK KEANE.
GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
>> IT IS FOR SOME OF US HAVE
BEEN COVERING THIS FOR LONG
TIME, IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 18 LONG
YEARS OF WARFARE IN AFGHANISTAN.
YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE PROSPECT
OF PEACE IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF
A FRAMEWORK TO NEGOTIATE SUCH AN
END?
>> THERE CLEARLY HAS BEEN SOME
PROGRESS, LOU.
WHAT IS DIFFERENT, THERE IS SOME
MOMENTUM.
WHY IS THAT?
WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THEY CALIBAN
IN THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS
HAVE BEEN A WHOLE AND AFTER THE
U.S. PULLED ALL OF HIS FORCES
OUT EXCEPT THOSE WHO ARE DOING
TRAIN AND ASSIST MISSIONS.
LITERALLY THEY TRIED TO TAKE
OVER SOME PROVINCES AND PUT REAL
PRESSURE ON THIS GOVERNMENT.
THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO DO THAT
AND SUSTAIN THAT EFFORT.
THEY WERE ABLE TO TAKE BACK THAT
TERRITORY BUT NOTHING
CONSEQUENCE WILL.
THE WAR IS STALEMATED, THEY KNOW
THAT.
SECOND THING, THIS IS KEY,
PAKISTAN BELIEVE IT IS NO LONGER
IN THEIR INTEREST TO SUPPORT THE
STATUS QUO, WHERE THEY WERE
SUPPORTING THE TALIBAN AND ALSO
THE UNITED STATES.
WE TALKED ABOUT THAT MANY TIMES
ON THE AIR.
SO, NOW THEY WANT TO TALIBAN AT
THE PEACE TABLE AND HAVE PUSH
THEM TO DO THAT.
THAT IS WHY WE ARE MAKING SOME
PROGRESS HERE.
THE TALIBAN RECOGNIZING THEY ARE
NOT ONLY GOING TO COME TO A
STALEMATE, THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT
WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DEFEAT THE
TALIBAN WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF
ADVISORS WE ARE PROVIDING.
WE ARE MOVING TO A FRAMEWORK TO
GET A CEASE-FIRE, AND EVENTUALLY
SOME KIND OF NEGOTIATED
SETTLEMENT.
WE ARE A LONG WAY FROM THAT.
BECAUSE, WHY?
THAT TALIBAN HAS NOT HAD ONE
NEGOTIATED DISCUSSION WITH THE
AFGHAN GOVERNMENT.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT'S
WHO THEY HAVE TO MAKE THE DEAL
WITH.
THERE NEEDS TO BECOME
THERE NEEDS TO SECOME
THERE NEEDS TO SOMOME
THERE NEEDS TO SOMEME
THERE NEEDS TO SOME KIND OF
POWER-SHARING AND GIVING UP THE
TERRITORY.
CERTAINLY WE WILL PLAY ON ALL OF
THAT.
THAT WOULD BE FORMIDABLE, TO SAY
THE LEAST.
PROGRESS MADE TO BE SURE, BUT
KEEP A HEALTHY DOSE OF
SKEPTICISM IN TERMS OF WHERE WE
ARE GOING.
>> LOU: AFTER 18 YEARS, MY
SKEPTICISM IS INTACT.
>> IS WELL-DESERVED.
>> LOU: GENERAL, JOURNEY TO
CHINA, TODAY, THE SANCTIONS
BASED ON THE WALL WAY CHARGES,
IT'S THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
WAITING EXTRADITION, AND
BRINGING IN THE CHARGES AGAINST
STEALING, CHINA STEALING BUT
WALL WAY SPECIFICALLY, U.S.
INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY FROM T-MOBILE AND
OTHERS.
BY THE WAY, WE KNOW HUNDREDS OF
OTHERS OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS.
MANY HAVE SAID IT'S A MILITARY
ACTION AGAINST CHINA FOR WHAT IT
HAS DONE INSTEAD OF A NEGOTIATED
FRAMEWORK IN A TRADE DOCUMENT.
THEY ARE STEALING US BLIND AND
HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR DECADES.
YOUR THOUGHTS?
>> FIRST, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY
TRUE WHAT YOU HAVE SAID.
SECONDLY WE DO HAVE A PRESIDENT
WHO IS STANDING UP FOR THIS AND
ATTEMPTING TO STOP THIS ECONOMIC
PART OF THIS THEY ARE BULLIES,
STOP THE STEALING OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND
PUSHBACK ON JOINT VENTURES TAKEN
PLACE INSIDE OF CHINA.
WALLWAY IS NOT JUST WITH THE
UNITED STATES.
IT'S A WORLDWIDE ORGANIZATION,
IT LITERALLY TAKES OVER WITH
EMERGING NATIONS.
CHINA COMES IN WITH THE TELECOM
COMPANIES AND THEY OWN ALL OF
THE PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE IN
THOSE COUNTRIES FOR GENERATIONS
TO COME.
IT IS STAGGERING WHAT THEY HAVE
BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE.
WE SHOULD BE PUSHING BACK ON
THIS BUT WE SHOULD NOT BE ALONE.
THE OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD
NEED TO RECOGNIZE THE WAKE-UP
CALL THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS
HAD.
CHINA IS NOT GOING TO HAVE
POLITICAL REFORM ENJOYING