why are they asking our kids to put their lives in jeopardy. because the president is not asking or kids. he s saying specifically there are no boots on the ground. this is going to be a lilted strike. what i am putting to you is that, as a strategy, may have the potential to deter this individual from killing more of his own people. we don t know that, but the first part of the question is, what do you do? you tell people, not american kids, that this is an international monster, and we want you to put up and shut up. i refuse to believe we re the only ones that have armed forces. this idea of no boots on the ground, this idea about limited war, if any americans ever are jeopardized as a result of retaliation by this mad man because of this so-called limited attack, i ll be the first one to say we ve got to wipe these people out to protect our men and women. whether they re flying a plane or on the ground this is war.
reporter: for many of these people, all they have known is war. the battle with the soviets, the civil war then for control of the country, the years under the taliban and, of course, the american invasion and the battle that we ve seen here for the past decade. it s a gritty life. people find their life where they can, they make their living wherever they can find it. these people, of course, are concerned about their future. one of the things on their mind is whether the taliban will come back, whether bin laden s death is a game changer, whether or when the u.s. will actually leave afghanistan. many people looking forward to the day when there is no more foreign interference in this country. translator: why should americans come and run my country. i don t go to other countries. i can run my country. reporter: amongst the people that i ve spoken to here, you don t find an overwhelmingly negative attitude to the taliban. some here say that the taliban