i know that president obama has offered a strategic partnership to the afghan people, the afghan governme. i think that to m what tha means is to give them a sent of reassurance, a sense of certainty that if things really are difficult from external threats or otherwise, that we would be there as an ally. i think that what's going to have to happen is we'll have to decide what we want to accomplish, if we want to just support the training of afghan troops or building of institutions you can do that in a few locations it wouldn't take a lot of people. if you have wider asrations to put advisors at farther levels either civilian or military or you decide to provide medical support, medevac aircraft which takes a lot of bases to do, whatever you decide, the matt math goes up very quickly. if you want to put them out in remote locations you have two choices you either accept risk which is not an irrational thing or you put an infrastructure of fire support communications medical evacuation, hospitals and all of those thing to support them, which takes a significant nuer of pele and places. on