root there. there have been books written already about the obama administration s foreign policy and some of them place you at the absolute center, give you enormous amount of influence and in fact one book says that the white house and you had too much influence and drowned out the voice of somebody like hillary clinton and richard holbrook who were taking very different perspectives on afghanistan, particularly. how do you respond to that? we have had from the outset of the administration a very strong group of foreign policy principles. and none of whom would be, quote unquote, drowned out. we have at the principals committee that i led here, you would have the vice president of the united states, joe biden, secretary clinton, general petraeus, leon panetta, bob gates before him, richard holbrook when he was with us. it was a very strong group of principals. and indeed one of the things that i am quite happy with over the last four and a half years