responsibility of course is to secure its people so that those people can indeed declare their allegiance if you will. if the government has not been able to secure the population in an area, particularly in a country that has been at war for some 30 years and where the people have in some cases been professional camelions and side with whichever side appears is going to prevail and that's how you survive. our first and most important task with our afghan security force partners has to be to improve security for the people so they literally can cast a vote not just in the elections in september for their parliamentary leadership but for or against the afghan government, a government that has to earn legitimacy in their eyes through their actions. >> you talk about getting the big ideas right. it seems like one of the biggest ideas that you have yet to surmount is the fact that there