this is a country in which there are actually some common objectives if iran can look past its desire that we not succeed too easily. iran doesn't want to see the taliban come back anymore than do most afghan citizens. it's an ultraconservative extremist sunni islamic organization and they don't want to see it rule the country the way it did in the past. having said that, they also don't want to see us achieve our objectives easily and they have indeed provided over time what one might call modest amounts of weapons, explosives, and funding and some training to the taliban as well. >> what's worse, iran with a nuclear weapon or the fallout of an attack on iran to prevent a nuclear weapon? >> that's one for the policy makers. of course that's the huge question that looms out there. obviously when i was a central command commander, we had a variety of different input and