it has to do with expanding markets in china, rebuilding our infrastructure, rebuilding classrooms, doing the things we need to do to get competitive. we are not going to be fighting hot wars in europe to figure out who dominates the next century. this isn t the 20th century. talking to people in the administration, you get the sense that this was the argument joe biden was making. we cannot have that type of footprint in that region. we haven t discussed it. killing osama bin laden was paramount in this decision. that removed the chief objective. the argument was, what do you do now. do you tell karzai your clock is running out? bring them into the government or say you can have more time? we can keep troops at that level, don t worry about it,