right, i think that time is, in fact, working against russia. they had lost the advantage of the shock and awe expectation people had for them. now the grinding nature of the war exposed them as more of a paper tire than they had been. it doesn't mean they can't ultimately win. they do still have, of course, superior fire power. they have the will of vladimir putin to do things that ordinary commanders wouldn't do, in terms of civilian destruction. general mccaffrey mentioned 25,000 russian soldiers so far reported wounded or killed. 10,000 reported to be killed. if that is the case, that's already, in a few weeks, two-thirds of the entire death toll the russians have reported from the afghan war when they fought there for ten years. that's more in three weeks than we, the united states, lost, the fatalities in iraq and afghanistan combined in 20 years. at some point, there's a lot of mothers and families back in russia who are losing sons and are going to be pretty -- you