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Military, we're not self-employed, we do what we're told. he's somebody who will salute. the bottom line summary of all of this, i think, is obama wants out of afghanistan desperately. we're reducing in iraq, wants to reduce costs, wants to reduce the troop intensity and so there will be more secret operations, more below the radar work done everywhere in the world. of course, that can be more risky, but it requires not high levels of troops or personnel, not really as expensive. as panetta has always said, he will be at the defense department, if confirms, i'm sure he will be. always said, i'...

There, and i think everyone really loved him. and so that's a active act to follow. so he's going to have to reach out to the staff. and thirdly, he's going to have to sort of mesh this whole issue of he knows these conflicts very well. the cia will be doing their analysis of him, and even though he'll have strong opinions, he'll have to somehow figure out a way to deal with the analytical community in the cia as they put out their assessments of what is going forward. you know, afghanistan or -- we are not out of the woods there. there's going to be a lot of stuff that we need to look at ahea...