the 13 years of u.s. and nato involvement in afghanistan have done nothing to change theies old tribal allegiances of the region and nato's top-down approach to build the army was probably less effective than a bottom up approach would have been to build tribal allegiances into a loose confederation representing afghanistan's interests. president obama promises that afghanistan will no longer cultivate international terrorism. >> because of the extraordinary service of the men and women in the american armed forces afghanistan has a chance to rebuild its own country. we are safer. it's not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again. >> fox news contributor ralph peters says there's no way the president can know that. >> he doesn't. of course he doesn't. we always heard -- heard from president that al qaeda was finished. he may have declared the war in afghan over. it ain't over. just as iraq wasn't over.