but in addition, were it not for our can't to take our logistics thus the port of karachi, on a 1,000-mile run through the khyber pass we could not for 90 days support 150,000 nato troops 800 miles from the sea. so pakistan is absolutely primary to our ability to continue this struggle. i think looking forward in afghanistan, there may well be an impact on al qaeda's ability to recruit and retain. i'm not sure. i don't believe it's going to have a significant role on what's going on inside afghanistan to the extent that this is a tribal war of the pasch tuns against the rest of them. i think the war will continue,