and of course other attacks have emanated from here or the region because it's a regional issue as well. >> you talk about unity of effort but the national security team under this administration has not had that. i wonder what you think the impact is, the residual impact is of general mcchrystal being fired because his speaking publicly aired some real differences within the national security team which undermine the effort. >> first of all, let me just start in afghanistan and state very clearly that there is very good civil military unity of effort. ambassador ieikenberry, the nat senior civilian representative, we are like this. in fact, we have done numerous meetings with president karzai together when there have been particularly important issues at hand. for what it's worth my sense is from dealing with the national security team that since president obama made this decision that everyone has linked arms and is moving