he was killed. whether he had official protection is something i can t tell. what do you think? really difficult to say one way or other but where he was, how could he have been without some knowledge. that s what a lot of people suspect. all right. let s talk about u.s.-afghan relations. right now you ve had some successful, i think, meetings with the president of the united states. but a lot of americans as you know, and you look at american public opinion polls, they re concerned that they want the u.s. out of afghanistan, about 70% say it s time for the u.s. to come home, the u.s. is spending to keep 90,000 troops, $2 billion a week in afghanistan, $100 billion a year. why is this money well spent? we have already agreed on a process of transition to afghan authority whereby afghanistan will be looking after itself and after its security and the defense of the country almost entirely by 2014, and that s also the time that the american forces and other forces wil