afghanistan. i think that it's pretty obvious the effort in marjah did not achieve the elements of success quickly enough. the offensive into kandahar has been delayed which argues against this setting a date certain for beginning the withdraw. a lot of behavior that karzai is displaying, a lot of things that are going on right now are direct result of the president's commitment to beginning withdraw and not turn out the lights means. rahm emanuel on your program last sunday reiterated the commitment to leaving middle of 2011. the president's spokesperson said "it's etched in stone. he has the chisel." people in the region can't leave. they have to adjust and they have to accommodate and karzai is doing some of the things he's doing because he's not confident that we're going to stay.