heroism, compassion, and their love for the afghan people. now the taliban recently released a new code of conduct that authorizes their fighters to go after foreigners and aid workers really in a way they had not before. so despite these groups commitment it does have the potential to make it much more dangerous to deliver aid there. wolf? all right, chris. thanks very much. chris lawrence working the story at the pentagon. let s get to more on this situation in afghanistan. joining us our senior political analyst david gergen. in bloomberg news today, al hunt writing this, quoting gordon goldstein as a professor who knows a lot about the vietnam war, has written a major book on it. goldstein argues it s clear the counterinsurgency and population-protection policy, as set naught general stanley mcchrystal s manifesto last summer is failing, reminiscent of the grandiose plans promulgated in vietnam back in the 1960s.