damage is done. but also pretty much, chris, as you know, to help buy their allegiance. there s one very interesting aspect to this particular offensive. this relatively small area of southern afghanistan produces 60% of the world s opium. now, that provides drug lords with $4 billion a year annually, $400 million of that goes to the taliban. and it s interesting, chris, because this offensive is occurring just at harvest time. so for those drug lords to try to harvest that crop, when the place is infested with u.s. military, is going to essentially deny them and the taliban some badly needed revenue, chris. wow. i m reminded of charlie wilson through all this. thank you very much. jim miklaszewski reporting on the afghan front. eric holder is reconsidering right now trying the 9/11 mastermind khalid shaikh mohammed in federal court after coming under intense republican