that. to say look the united states, yes, maybe it s got a checkered past and is trying to come clean. i think in part this may help. but the critics are always going to be on the one side and they ll get ammunition here. the people that want to believe and support because of it. this will help them. the critics of the u.s. find the transparency baffling. i remember in january of 2012, there was incidents of some korans being burned at a u.s. military base. but the u.s. came out and said we did do that and we re sorry. and there were some afghans couldn t believe they didn t bother to lie. i think that transparency culture works well in some culture, but the level of self-int self-intro spection is unheard of in other places. what s your perspective whether or not the coalition is working. it s not winning, it s holding it back, potentially,