these improvements to get hearing about i mean speaking earlier this year lieutenant general cody scott scott a party is a fifth of the response the ocean he's the second highest ranking soldier in afghanistan at that so i was just moved back to washington during the summer he actually said then that only one percent of afghan battalions could operate independently and that was this year he said that so it is fifty percent of afghan battalions operating independently of of nato troops comes from it is a mystery to me i mean i think we've got to be realistic about what we've achieved here ok we haven't achieved in eleven years a great deal we're talking about very small pluses over an eleven year period you know basically we just have to accept the fact that you know this isn't a withdrawal it's a retreat in this retreat in the face of a war that's unwinnable by any criteria i don't think anyone expected a clear cut victory for either side in this but what they really didn't expect was the fact that the west have mishandled this so badly that it's led to now to them basically leaving as they d