transitional strategy and are you concerned about that incident of the holy books burning at bob rumer basekoran burnings @ bagram airfield >>we want a full transition so that the combat role of the united states is over by 2014 the coalition partners have agreed to this they're sticking with it continues to beat the plan. what will now be doing over the next two years and at the nato meeting is to ensure that the transition has bounc benchmarks and steps taken along the way similar to the way the role reduction we had going an iraq is effective ... in terms of training of afghan forces and security. that situation with the burning of the koran concerns me it's an indication of the challenges we have an environment and it's an indication that now's the time for us to transition. the violence directed at our people is unacceptable president hamid karzai acknowledged that much. but he is eager for more responsibility on the afghani side of things. we need to find a mechanism that the afghanis know that their sovereignty is being respected that they have a greater role in their security ... is in e