finally we're talking about the afghanistan policy in the united states again. because i think there are quite serious questions that need to be asked and quite fundamental flaws in the policy that aren't really being addressed. >> of all the things that you heard, what surprised you most? what comments really jumped out at you? >> i think i was quite surprised when they started to make fun of vice president biden. i was also quite surprised sitting across from general mccrystal at the hotel in paris and he pulled out his blackberry looked at it and said not another e-mail from corporate, meaning mr. holbrook and said i don't even want to open it. >> you also write about the first meeting with president obama. he said it was a ten-minute photo-op, says an adviser to mccrystal. obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. here's the guy who's going to run his bleeping war. the boss was pretty disappointed.