months or several weeks the situation in afghanistan is deteriorating and there is no way the president got ahead of this pull out that the afghan forces would have, batted the taliban. this is a disaster waiting to happen. what the president is doing now is enough to contain damage at least until he leaves office but i still don t see how was small number like his, 9,000, 5,000, is going to be enough. bill: here s the number, 9800 through most of 2016, then 5500 going into the year 2017. dimension the word contain. is this the policy of containment? what can you get done with that number when you have the taliban, al qaeda and a growing force of isis? do the bare minimum. when i say containment, talking a brief period of time contain the enemy s, no way you can contain over a long period of