complete. >> yeah. tactically, jamie, we're making great strides. if you look at the data that comes across the wires, almost every day we are taking out a provincial taliban leader or taking down 15 i think in your lead-in to this, you were talking about 20-something taliban fighters killed in a single engagement. tactically, the troops are doing a great job. question on a strategic, grander level, what is it that we are doing? even if we train the traps now, if we pull out and we pull out too soon, then it is a foundation built on sand. the people are going to choose sides, the last time in 1989, when soviets left, a zil war followed. sides were drawn and the fighting went on. we don't want to see it happen again. >> jamie: please continue to follow it for us and come back, captain nash. thank you for your insight today. important topic.