need that policy expertise brought back because the place isn t really royaling in that right now. let me ask atia about the karzai relationship with the united states as well because you ve had moments in the past where john kerry went over as an informal envoy as foreign relations chair to try to patch things over. previous trips where senator kerry and senator louinger were jack reid were going to the to kabul to try to talk to karzai. that s been a sort of work in progress. hasn t quite delivered the way they had hoped. no. the relationship with president karzai in washington has been a very strained relationship, but that s no secret. it s been very tumultouos. the last american that president karzai really fully trusted was actually fired pretty much by president obama. he accepted general stanley mcchrystal s resignation after that article in rolling stone making sfwleen.