strategy. there's tension with ambassador holbrooke. the president needs to take a fresh look at all of that and make sure that petraeus has the team on the ground to make sure that he can succeed in this effort to win this war, and, you know, make no mistake. david petraeus is in charge, but we need to have the diplomatic team around him that's going to make sure that we have a successful effort. >> "new york times" wrote, this goes back a little bit, but they say, this is talking about mcchrystal and the chain of command, they say i wish we had generals who remember what it was like when they were down in a platoon, he said to a reporter, they have never been in real fighting or they have forgot what it's like, an anonymous army sergeant quoted, again, anonymous quotes like this are to be taken with seven grains of salt. >> sure. >> but do you get the sense that the connection between the highest levels of our military and our government and the young men and women who are on the ground every day in these countries where we pay them to perpetrate war on our behalf,