republican foreign policy critique of the administration, and to chris' point, broadly speaking, i do think that there's a fundamental disconnect between the republican foreign policy establishment and even republican voters on these questions. this is a war weary nation. you can talk about our strategy in afghanistan. you can talk about we must say there until peace is at hand or victory is won, but the reality is we're going to leave afghanistan. we will leave afghanistan, nothing will have changed in that country. it is a tribal, islamic society with forces rooting it in the seventh century. we have had dozens of american men murdered by afghan comrades of arms. there's no discernible strategy, and i think that when the american people think about syria, they think about iran, they think about libya, they