why are they continuing in astrachan perhaps why the real answer is that you have a momentum of bureaucracy which just doesn't like to admit it's wrong you have leader after leader make their their name in this even general petraeus has left and i think quietly so because they have not achieved any any of their own stated objectives the pentagon to say it said several times that they stop the momentum of the tali one well that's just not true it's false and frankly it would never never be possible until we actually deal with the root of instability which is pakistan so ever it's like the weather everybody talks about it nobody can do nothing about it the issue is how we decide we're going to get serious this is really pakistan the afghan government knows that we know that i don't know and finally admitted within the last two weeks that the i ok pakistani intelligence service has been helping the taliban frankly my book was censored. why the pentagon last year at this time because they did want to. talk about a new trail so basically you have a pin to go in which is committed to a field cour