Kerry: OBL killing a reset button on Pakistan

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Because CBS disables embedding on most of its YouTube videos you'll have to click the link on the video and watch in a new video. Summary of interview with Senator John Kerry here.

Afghanistan is gendercide because of the situation of so many women there.

I think we need to help the women in some way that does not require military force.

to handle alone and with military force. The treatment of women in Afghanistan is embedded in religion and tradition. It might be more important to work with their government to push for laws that protect the women.

the US leave the country as they have not helped their plight, in fact may even have made it worse. They have said that the US has refused to deal with the democratic factions in AFghanistan, (most people don't even know they exist since we do not deal with them) and instead, pay large sums of money to the War Lords and the Taliban strengthening them instead of building up the democratic movement there.

They say that the women were caught between two warring factions before the US invaded, now they are caught between three.

I wish the US WOULD back democratic forces in these countries, but as everyone knows, we do not.

Our drones are killing civilians, women and children, women have been raped and abused by US forces. It has not been very good for the women. I don't know what they can do, unless they have money and power, the Western powers are not very interested in them. They would not be dropping bombs on their villages if they were.

What a lost opportunity to make up for abandoning them after the Soviet Union left. We could have spent all that money we spent on bombs and weapons over the past ten years, on other things. And of course the torture of so many Afghans, and incidents like the recent 'Kill Team' episodes, has done little to improve the plight of anyone in the country.

We need to leave, maybe someone else can do a better job for those poor people. I read that there is not a single Afghan citizen who is not in some way physically and/or emotionally affected by war.