strategy that the obama administration would say is, and i think they re right on this is making progress, particularly in what was the al qaeda the taliban hot land of helmand and kandahar and they ve also done a pretty good job prove tecting kabul. they re not everywhere in the country. they are making progress, it s uneven but we ll allow that to continue. if we can put up the maps that were internal u.n. determinations about whether we were making progress. there s a map from march and then october of this year. that s march. you can see the reddish area is high risk and then if you jump to the october map, just very recently, you see the area of high risk and is increasing the areas of low risk of dimini diminishing. christine, do you think we are winning or losing at a simple military level? i was actually with unama. i ve seen those maps going back to 2002. in 2002, people could drive from cab towel kandahar. now that would only be a
necessarily have the best strategy in afghanistan. i will argue that we have the best american general who is heading up that strategy, general petraeus. his full complement of troops has arrived only this fall. we sharks lou him time to do what he wants to do. we all want to play arm chair general but we should be supporting this general and, by the way, this president in what is a very well considered if very complicated and difficult strategy that the obama administration would say is, and i think they re right on this is making progress, particularly in what was the al qaeda the taliban hot land of helmand and kandahar and they ve also done a pretty good job prove tecting kabul. they re not everywhere in the country. they are making progress, it s uneven but we ll allow that to continue. if we can put up the maps that were internal u.n. determinations about whether we were making progress. there s a map from march and then october of this year. that s march. you can see the red