navy chief is blasting obama. as long as we have troops on the ground and they are taking mortar fire and helicopters getting band up, wounded americans, dead americans, that s combat. martha: joining me colonel ralph peters, strategic analyst. basically he s saying we are in combat. we saw that with joshua wheeler who was killed in iraq october 22. we have a president who is more concerned with spinning than winning. right now a relative handful of u.s. special operations forces are carrying afghanistan on their shoulders. it s just a stunning situation.