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We don't know exactly how connecticut is going to be in military terms. if there's a lot more fighting, does that in any base run the risk of making a political settlement less likely? >> i'm not sure. petraeus at least seize counter insurgency -- not as separate from war. it's like something that happened simultaneously in different places. you can have like really active fighting in one place and sort of more negotiated political settlements in another. you can have school building over here and you can have kind of, you know, real active fighting in another place. >> on the issue of the eng...

That they are not able to finish firefights or keep themselves safe once firefights start. do you think that those rules are likely to change, and how important will that be? >> well, petraeus said today in his hearing that he'd reconsider at least some of the applications of the rules. and, you know, my gut feeling is they'll change a little bit. you can, we're not going to go all of a sudden to all-out crazy world war ii style conflict in afghanistan. that's not going to happen. but there could be a little bit more flexibility, i'm guessing, in the number of air strikes that are allowed to b...