and you know ahmed karzai his brother half brother whatever just recently assassinated you right the levels of corruption mind boggling cynicism here in this country about. our's eyes former associations are welcome but you know. what what we do. that's that is if you were advising the president well i would say first of all forget any military options you know everything has been run by the military and you know why allow generals to decide and i feel very sympathetic to a lot of the soldiers we've asked them to become soldiers aid workers development workers relief workers i mean you name it you can expect them to do that afghanistan can only be resolved i think through proper and effective recovery including investment it's going to be in of evolve people who understand afghanistan and it's going to be led by afghans themselves the trouble with the military is that you know many go in for six months that's the first and maybe a year they cannot possibly begin to understand afghanistan in that period and in fact i was in the u.k. recently and talked to two world marine officers who

in july, the president's brother ahmed wali karzai, was shot down in his kandahar home. just weeks later, the mayor of kandahar died in another suicide attack with explosives hidden in a turban. the taliban claimed responsibility for both murders. their goals, to take out people in positions of power and authority. and many of those people are key to the american forces' exit strategy from afghanistan. >> pelley: so, mandy, i wonder, where do the afghans go at this point? >> reporter: well, as of tonight there may be nowhere to go. rabbani has built relationships with numerous insurgent groups and there appeared to be some progress so as of now these negotiations are probably dead. >> pelley: mandy clark. thank you very much. the bombing happened just before afghan president hamid karzai met with president obama at the u.n. in new york. karzai cut short the visit and headed home. chief white house correspondent norah o'donnell is at the u.n. norah? >> reporter: good evening, scott. this is a horrific assassination of an afghan leader that the u.s. viewed as a unifying fi