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Whose blog about how to correctly establish an insurgency attracted the attention of the nigerian rebels at one point. john is the author of "brave new world: the next stage of terrorism and the end globalization." breath, i'll start with you i look at it. i don't have as much information as anybody in the conversation. why are we there? why are we in afghanistan? why are we paying for afghanistan? you view, and i don't want to put you in the pro-afghanistan point, but somebody has to do it because i know everybody will say there's all these reasons we shouldn't be. but if you were to make a c...

All local. if you're creating a half and half situation by securing five provinces, you have the rest of the country largely overrun by the taliban. in many ways we're creating more of a problem being have the troops where they're at. i would argue we need to cut back to 2003 levels. >> and i want to bring john rob into the conversation. when you look at the modern day insurgency and your perceptions of how it works, where do you come down in terms of our resource allocation to deal with it? are we overinvesting things in your view that don't yield positive resulresults? are we investing in th...