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>> kate, that is the question of the day. first, if i can comment on what susan just said, there will most definitely be not just a military after-action review of the last 20 years, but i'm certain there will be an interagency review. and the critical part of that, if i may, is to make sure it's a bipartisan and calm effort to determine what we did right and what we did wrong. there was certainly a lot of things we did right as well as many of the things that we did wrong during our time in afghanistan. now, to answer your second question, i actually have a letter to myself in my desk drawer ...

North korea's solid fuel rockets? does it change the equation. >> it does provide a degree of efficiency and mobility and gives you less warning than do a liquid fuel rockets but they've been moving in this direction for years. again, it's another thing that we watch. because it reduces our warnings, if you will. but we have very good intelligence on north korea. we work closely with our partners, the south koreans who are capable ally as well. these are all things it's my responsibility along with the intelligence community to keep a close eye on. >> do you think this is just a cycle that kim...

They will range death and destruction on the capital city. then whatever follows that, are they going to engage japan, launch any kind of other attack? and it will start the war that will probably end his regime. so we do have options, but all of them are bad. the best option of course is not to have to fight. if we can get through some sort of diplomatic effort. if we think that the north koreans are going to diplomatically remove their nuclear weapons, i think that's not going to happen. >> general hertling, we had ambassador baucus on earlier, saying that he believes china would get involve...

Caused yourself a little bit of trouble. the current administration has achieved great things over the last seven to ten days in terms of diplomatic action and informational action. to have the leader of that administration using the bellicose language that a lot of the world sees in a very different way than many americans do, causes some challenges when you're talking about a strategic event with dire circumstances on the peninsula of korea. as we're focusing on this one area of the world, one of the jobs i had as a war planner in the pentagon many years ago was to say what's going on in the...

Of diplomatic effort. if we think that the north koreans are going to diplomatically remove their nuke weapons, i think that's not going to happen. >> general hertling, we had ambassador baucus on earlier, saying that he believes china would get involved, they wouldn't just stand by and watch a conflict get under way on their border without getting involved. do you think that's a possibility? >> i think that's probably very true, and he knows it more than most having been the ambassador at one time. anderson, if i can say something else. >> sure. >> when i was the war planner in the pentagon r...