necessarily have the best strategy in afghanistan. i will argue that we have the best american general who is heading up that strategy, general petraeus. his full complement of troops has arrived only this fall. we sharks lou him time to do what he wants to do. we all want to play arm chair general but we should be supporting this general and, by the way, this president in what is a very well considered if very complicated and difficult strategy that the obama administration would say is, and i think they're right on this is making progress, particularly in what was the al qaeda -- the taliban hot land of helmand and kandahar and they've also done a pretty good job prove tecting kabul. they're not everywhere in the country. they are making progress, it's uneven but we'll allow that to continue. >> if we can put up the maps that were internal u.n. determinations about whether we were making progress. there's a map from march and then october of this year. that's march. you can see the reddish area is high risk and then if you jump