essential for our national interests. he was all over that issue. i don t think that we ever had a day, you know, we never had a walk in the park without richard being on the phone to a member of the pakistani leadership. he just felt that we could not walk away, however frustrating and complex this pakistani story is, we had to stay on top of it. and he would be very pleased to see that senator kerry, his great friend and colleague with whom he crafted the kerry/luger bill which gives five years of civilian and democracy building aid to pakistan, he would be so happy to see senator kerry in the field, carrying on where richard left off. kati what about afghanistan and the negotiations, karen young wrote about it and came on the program the other day, negotiations with the taliban. and the possibility of