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I'm not sure an indefinite stalemate is in our interest. >> you talk about failed stalemates. a lot of people point to guantanamo as a failed stalemate for this administration as well as the last. it's prufed to be an intractable problem. detention issues are not easily resolved. something that flew below the radar this week as i'm sure you noticed, is that the state department is simply closing the office that was in charge of diplomacy related to shutting guantanamo. they've now shut that office and reassigned who was in charge of it. that is one of the classic -- john kerry now has to go ar...

Moving forward on that. >> really quickly on afghanistan to the article you were mentioning, our goal and our strategy and our objective is not to destroy every last vestige of the taliban, nor is it to fix afghan's economy, it's to destroy al qaeda's senior leadership and we've done an extraordinary amount of work towards that goal. i want to make sure we right-size our objectives in the reason to gitmo, i totally agree with you that congress has put up every possible obstacle to prevent guantanamo from closing, it's bizarre, because this wassen issue that people basically agreed on before we...