you just don't want to walk backwards. >> what we don't want to do is slide backwards. think both of our concern is that we've made this investment. we are pushing out the boundaries of their own self-rule. it is not going to happen overnight. this election in and of itself does not do that. a lot of positive signs in this election but we can't just turn and walk away and allow it to devolve back into what it was before. >> the issue is karzai. you never know where he's going to be. mike and i have met with him on numerous occasions. we don't want to happen what's happening in iraq right now. it is more of a sunni-ciena iun issue. let me move you on to another sort of big blockbuster story that happened this week. that is the beginning perhaps of a road where parts of a senate intelligence committee report on the cia program post-9/11 on prisoner interrogation.