afghanistan? >> as you said, he was sort of somebody that the u.s. has been concerned about for a long time. he was directly involved in the attack on the cia base, his organization was involved in the attack in new york. so the united states has a very fundamental interest in making sure that these threats don't continue and i think that this has been a long standing interest in the united states, clearly an opportunity seems to have arizin and i think it's quite understandable from a national security perspective why -- >> you were involved as was jim in the very arduous project of trying to get peace talks started in afghanistan, it was on again, off again, so it took a lot to get them going. from your perspective, assassinating one of the guys that was going to be on the other site of the table, presumably, does that make sense? >> if he was going to be there at the end of the day, this was a very, very long table, and he