They've ever been. ties of marriage and second generation marriage and the fact is that the cia has a lot to do still there. >> so literally and figuratively, married in effect al qaeda and the taliban. >> absolutely. according to the u.n., which is not a warmongering type of organization. so i -- it remains to be seen. you mentioned med evac. there is base protection, there is root protection, there is a lot of things that the military does for the cia. and without that, they're going to be hamstrung as colonel leighton said. you could do it from a basis in qatar or elsewhere but it is not th...