marines has been out here for a long time it s a hot time. it s 115 degrees today. i would like to say hello to dawn murphy and my lovely daughter sky lee. we ll be home before you have know it. they have done a great job out here, gretchen. gretchen: it s always great when you have do those interviews. to the both of you, thank you for your service and we ll well couple home when you get here. we are joined by peter brooks, former cia officer, now a senior fellow with the heritage foundation. i m interested on ollie s take on this situation that he sees a silver lining. i think that is the good news that the afghan forces led the effort to take back the hotel. this was a highly i am boiblg,
high visibility attack. and what it does is it s being talked about in kabul. what the intent was was to juneo uner mine the governments ability to provide security. the fact is that a bunch of provincial gofers and on thers from the central government were getting together to talk about the thanoff of security responsibility from coalition forces to afghan national forces. so this was certainly very symbolic. it wasn t it wasn t nearly as successful as mumbai. but they are looking for something like tet in 1968 in vietnam that undermines the confidence in the central government. gretchen: is the timing ironic? last week president obama went