like. it would give bagram a chance to say explicitly, this is what happened, not to have to go all the way to the white house for an explanation. to have bagram and its commander s, this is what happened. in this case this is what happened. we condemn burning of qurans in general but this is specifically what happened. jenna: you wouldn t even involve the higher executives in our own government, you would have handled it on a very local level? i think the problem is when you have to go through multiple chains of command ain t takes so long to respond to the message that you end up in this case not even responding to it at all. jenna: are we playing into the message that we re the bad guys, that we have done something wrong, that we knowingly burned a religious book, that we wanted to incite the afghans, and we are quite frankly naive or belligerent to the fact that that would insult them? are we playing inch too the narrative of the even knee. i think what we re not doing is hig