burnson, a former cia agent who fought in the early stages of the war. he's also a republican running for the new york senate. gary, good to hear from you. thank you for being with us right now. answer any one of those questions that you care to. is the cost of this war worth it? should we still be there and what is the goal of this war supposed to be? >> the first thing is i'm running for the u.s. senate against chuck schumer. we need to establish security in afghanistan because it impacts on the entire region and the world. you have 24 militant organizations operating along the afghan bush pak border and pakistan is a nation with 90 nuclear weapons. we now are correctly looking at this as the af-pak problem. how we move forward is a combination of things. establishment of security. but the second part of this is