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So if the idea is to project power and to maintain influence, you could end up antagonizing a lot of people by doing that. >> but i guess i'm trying to get to the -- in other words, in real terms, we have a lot of power left in that area. you think it may be a vulnerability to hang in there in another form, throw contractors, rather than through uniformed service people? it may create a target, rather than a power? >> reporter: absolutely. absolutely. one soldier that i was speaking to described it this way, that this huge contractor presence is a self-licking ice cream cone. it is contractors...

>> but i guess i'm trying to get to the -- in other words, in real terms, we have a lot of power left in that area. you think it may be a vulnerability to hang in there in another form, throw contractors, rather than through uniformed service people? it may create a target, rather than a power? >> reporter: absolutely. absolutely. one soldier that i was speaking to described it this way, that this huge contractor presence is a self-licking ice cream cone. it is contractors protecting other contractors. they don't have a mandate to go out and provide any kind of security to the people. imagine ...

Say that they don't believe that u.s. troops are really leaving, that the u.s. embassy and all of its security contractors, 15, 16, 17,000 people is really just a military base by another name. and certain militant groups are certainly going to want to target them. so if the idea is to project power and to maintain influence, you could end up antagonizing a lot of people by doing that. >> but i guess i'm trying to get to the -- in other words, in real terms, we have a lot of power left in that area. you think it may be a vulnerability to hang in there in another form, throw contractors, rather...