department, or the defense department and the white house, as this administration decides what does a post-u.s. combat role in afghanistan look like? there s a lot of different options on the table. how much they are in conflict, you know, still remains to be seen. the pentagon, surely, the generals, the commanders, would, as you would expect, want to go for the higher number, because they want to get as much done as they feel they can. so, they are more in the 10,000 range. we ve heard a lot about this range of 3,000 troops being left behind. and pardon me what military commanders are tell you is that 3,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan really isn t enough to do anything. you would have to have so many devoted to security, you would have none left to help train afghans. but what is a post-u.s. afghanistan really look like? i think that s still very much remains to be seen because fundamentally, the concern ask that once the u.s. security footprint is gone, the big