seven provinces and districts to afghan control, to sustainable afghan control. so i think you can rdc what we're trying to do. province by province, district by district, establish conditions for the afghan government can take over and hold ground. and you're absolutely right. you don't have to, you know, build a whole nation i think to achieve that. >> international terrorism and global warfare in general is intrinsically mobile. i've written about this for a long time, as you know. so securing one particular area doesn't necessarily -- i don't say this critically. i say this out of concern for this policy is going. it doesn't necessarily guarantee that you've reduced capability of those kinds of forces. they are mobile, the move.