joining us now from washington d.c., is matthew rosenberg, he is a national security correspondent for the new york times he also once served as the times after ban stan correspondent, thank you for being with us today. >> thank you for having me on. >> how concern redirect examination you that the united states is going to be in afghanistan for quite some time beyond 2016. >> it is certainly liking like there will be a presence. the question is how big a presence. the obama administration has been talking about within thousand maybe 2,000 troops based around the embassy a big part of that is that the u.s. is committed to providing money to the afghan security forces for many years to come, and they want american troops there to help manage that. to help keep an eye on that, so that it is not being stolen. afghanistan has a very serious corruption problem. >> in fact, the corruption is always been -- >> it has been the gorilla in the middle oif room, is there a sense that it is in check. >> it is hard to say. the gahni administration as people say is beginning to -- she don't structura

and matthews rosenberg former afghanistan correspondent for the times. good to have you with us. >>> mr. rosenberg ghani offers hope for the u.s. president it says in the editor. >> he doesn't need all the chitchat he's not like dye who karzai who was often moody and belligerent. ghani runs an incredibly weak government. john kerry had to go there and personally negotiate the deal in which ghani was the president but abdalla business political rival, has created an office called the ceo. they do not get along. karzai for all its corruption did have a unified government. that deep commitment isn't there and that's a deep worry for the u.s. >> the relationship is slightly better. the priorities, mr. lyons afghanistan is still struggling. >> general campbell saying we've got to slow down the redeployment back to the united states. he went to afghanistan early last year, took over the job was vice chief of staff of the army, took over the army with the foresite that knowing pulling out by 2016 was too early. >> do you think it very well could happen? >> if g