goals. rumsfeld told eikenberry he thought it was an excellent letter but i don't know what to do with it. in 2007 when then joint chiefs chairman admiral michael mullen made his first trip to afghanistan a sergeant told him he was seeing his men crumble under the stress of too much fighting with too little equipment. accord-- according to notes taken by an aide one commander asked for 34 more legal korpts, mullen responded there's nothing on the shelf for afghanistan. as he recalled in an interview just before he left office. >> we were just limited on what we could send to afghanistan based on the priority that the iraq war had at the time. >> reporter: since then president obama has pulled all u.s. troops out of iraq and sent a surge of 30,000 more into afghanistan. the surge forces are back out now leaving the u.s. with 68,000 troops still there. afghanistan 2012 is a very different war from the one