Topic: Drawdown

New Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta visited Kabul to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and U.S. commanders to discuss the strategic defeat of Al-Qaeda. Panetta emphasized that the transition of security responsibility to Afghan forces is on track for completion by 2014, despite Al-Qaeda's shift into a "franchise mode" in other regions.

A November 2nd report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) regarding the Department of Defense's planning for the Iraq force drawdown is highlighted. The hosts criticize mainstream media outlets for failing to report on the technical details of the drawdown. They argue that journalists avoid reading these primary documents because it requires actual labor.