Let's play audio somebody number 16 CNN's Anderson Cooper 180 with hardly any audience,

which is why we're going to play this bite for you.

Spoke with the international correspondent at CNN, Michael Ware,

Cooper said everybody seems to admit, look, there's no military solution

and yet politically there's hardly any civilians on the ground in a lot of these areas.

And the Afghan government is riddled with corruption.

We're trying to bolster in these areas, the government, which is not represented its people.

We're now at the point where we could lose this war.

The Taliban will continue to fight as long as US troops or foreign troops want to be there.

So the whole idea is to put enough military pressure on the Taliban war machine

to parlay that pressure at the negotiating table or to bring a political solution.

Now, President Obama has to man up and decide, is he going to fight this war?

Or is he going to oversee an American defeat?

A CNN reporter says to Obama man up or lose Afghanistan man up or lose or is he going to oversee an American defeat?

What do you think the answer to the question is?

He's willing to oversee an American defeat.

He came out and said victory is something.

It's an uncomfortable proposition, a word in Afghanistan.

So meanwhile, the general who Obama wants and who Obama appointed and who Obama got confirmed

once more troops. Mr. President, you are not a state senator from Illinois.

You are the commander in chief of the US military.

Do your job. Drop the politics.

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