the policy. and most recently brought general petraeus in to continue to new policy that had been articulated and had been led by general mcchrystal. their argument is they knew they karzai was a bad actor and he s not be able to extend his reach beyond kabul. i can tell you it is limited to kabul. that is the reach of karzai. the whole point of what they re doing in the next few months in the beginning f the withdraw next july is to change that game. i think what they re going to end up doing, though, is acknowledging that it is regional and provincial in nature and there will never be a national government or state the way we would divine a natural government. is that ening towards a biden strategy of counter terrorism? yes. let many go back to ambassador galbraith. you advocate the limited turf protection. and limiting our operations in the rest of the country, i