military and financial support until 2014 but u.s. combat operations will end here within the next 18 months here and that's an important point that president obama and the white house are trying to make is this war is wrapping up here. may take a few more months but the end of the war is in sight. guys? >> connor powell, thanks so much. always in the middle of all the action. >> the big question is i thought that came out of the 11 minute address yesterday is when the president said, you know, al-qaida is the reason we went in. the taliban are not our enemy. when documents now arrived at the taliban and al-qaida have never been close enough, a true partnership. i don't know how you slice up that enemy and the taliban, by the way, are the ones who killed those seven people and perpetrated that homicide bomb. >> yeah, and also talked a little bit last night about how, you know, we're in talks with the -- you know, we're trying to bring the taliban in and then we heard news a couple of days ago that apparently ayman