but like dan mcneil said, what is the situation on the ground in afghanistan? who have you got to replace him? i mean there are a number of practical questions that would that might come between you and actually firing the guy even though... it's a firing offense. >> lehrer: general mcneil, is it your view that it is a firing offense but you shouldn't be fired for the very reasons that general mcpeak said? >> well, the article is unfortunate. but that's not to say that i'm... that i would say it's insubordinate. what the issue will boil down to is do you construe this to be insubordinate to the way that it ranks with other dimensions of u.s. history in the past. i understand it's a violation of u.s. code against office holders and whatnot. but my read on what i was provided is there's not a whole lot there put to mcchrystal in quotes. there's a lot of iny end owe. there's a lot of generalizations about what some of the members of his staff said. maybe the issue here is that we take a look at the team. they've been together for a long time. i know most of them.