a week ago. does this give all of us a disproportionate few of what s going on inside afghanistan? if you listen to administration officials, they say there s been significant progress against the taliban. it s one thing to say there s significant progress. it s something else for the president of the united states to apologize for a single specific incident. i think the fact that the president has done this, and i think it was a mistake, magnifies. you think it was a mistake for him to apologize? i think it was a mistake for him personally to apologize. there should have been apology but from a much lower level in the chain of command. it makes something really big even bigger. this will have the biggest impact on the congress who at the end of the day is really in control of the money and, therefore, in control of what happens overseas. in terms of what s supposed to happen right now, u.s. forces set to withdraw from afghanistan in entirely by the end of 2014.
but in addition, were it not for our can t to take our logistics thus the port of karachi, on a 1,000-mile run through the khyber pass we could not for 90 days support 150,000 nato troops 800 miles from the sea. so pakistan is absolutely primary to our ability to continue this struggle. i think looking forward in afghanistan, there may well be an impact on al qaeda s ability to recruit and retain. i m not sure. i don t believe it s going to have a significant role on what s going on inside afghanistan to the extent that this is a tribal war of the pasch tuns against the rest of them. i think the war will continue,