keep the taliban from coming back? already, the taliban is coming back. already, they e making inroads in southern afghanistan and eastern afghanistan. and that is with 50-plus thousand american and other foreign troops on the ground right now. if 50,000 can t do it, how could 12,000 do it? nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel, live for us tonight in sochi, russia. richard, i really appreciate you staying up to do this for us. it s good to see you, my friend. reporter: my pleasure. thanks a lot. all right. lots tole come tonight including how rock ribbed tea party principles were defeated by a pizza. that s still ahead on debunktion junction. stay with us. this is a fight that belongs to the iraq cankies. that s exactly what the president and world decided some time again and we left iraq. so we are not obviously contemplating returning. we re not contemplating putting boots on the ground. this is their fight. we re going to help them in their fight.