karzai thinks we're engaging in some suicidal attempt to keep ourselves necessary over there. >> reporter: you know, you say your reaction was to say enough. i think a lot of people over here had a reaction of saying, he said what? it didn't make sense to a lot of people. it seemed like the general saying something ridiculous in "catch 22." look at things that did and didn't happen in karzai's statements in a national sunday address. saturday there was supposed to be a hand-over from u.s. control to afghan control of the prison at bagram air base. it meant authority, autonomy. all points that he would have liked to have made, but the deal fell apart at the last minute because karzai objected to one clause, what we were told by a highly placed diplomatic. that is that the u.s. would have final say on whether certain prisoners were high value or high-risk detainees and should say in prison. karzai wanted to have the right to use any prisoners he wanted for prisoner releases to mollify the taliban. he thought that was the way to