problems. solving them is much harder especially when you have a bunch of competing priorities like the need to undertake terrorism missions in pakistan, the need to take pakistan's and a need to do a mill yr other things it becomes complicate. i think the surge was a mistake in hindsight. i think it's time to end this war and frankly it was doomed for a long time. >> yes. and joe biden of course was one of those people who at least at the time said he was against that surge. president ashraf ghani turned up today in the unied arab emirates reportedly taking $600 million of cash with him. this was the guy supposed to be clean, the guy supposed to fix afghanistan, the technocrat, economist and looks like he may have been just as corrupt as everyone before him. how much is afghan leadership over 20 years to blame for this