generals that he enlisted help with because he's saying this is clearly your decision he already told the pentagon they had unilateral authority to send as many troops to afghanistan as they want the pentagon came back with a proposal to send four thousand now it seems like he's giving the pentagon the reins completely to say do what you need to do so that we get a victory in mind ministration now mike we talked about pakistan in the last hour you and i he's specifically brought up pakistan what do you think his path is going to be in bringing them into the fray like you were talking about well he did say that they will have no sanctuary but that to me signals that he intends to do hot pursuit of taliban that do seek sanctuary in pakistan it's going to really create issues with pakistan and but what's ironic is that pakistan they created the afghan taliban they're not going to go again so they get there is a pakistan taliban which is trying to overthrow the pakistani government but...