i think that the most important thing was he basically double doon and adopted a strategy3 win in afghanistan try to lead us to a place we could accept. that is what the military was hoping he would do. to ay that president obama has sort of roiled the fetters of the military and secretary roiled the feathers of the military. obama has done a lot to mitigate that kind of distrust. that would have been -- it would have lived up to those kinds of suspicions. i don't think you can put this on president obama. he was going to readdress gays in the military. that has been addressed. how you implement that is up in the air. there are some people in the military that think these men and women have fought alongside. host: germantown, maryland. caller: insubordination at the general level since a serious message. it is more than poor judgment. it is a breach of leadership and it frightens me to think there is only one person that can run our military. what if something else happened to mcchrystal? host: who could succeed guest: he is not indispennable. that is an important pointt if this rises to the

. >> i want to pin you doon a little bit here you thought wo or thrre suzz you have -- was sufficient. did you not know that was all they had? or did you think that was enough? >> i had no idea how many people were involved in the + daily -- day-to-day management. >> if you read the report, even people between you and the contractors couldn't tell you who was doing it. >> i can tell you the principal assistant responsible for contracting in afghanistan as well as the contracting officer used a rigorous source selection. 35 initial vendors who submitted proposals for the host nation trucking contract, when we looked at it initially, we narrowed it down to 10 vendors. we looked at technical capability, looked at past performance as well as past experience, security, howwthey planned to execute security, and all of -- and price. price was a key factor. but all those factors went into the final decisson to select them. >> i guess it's still unclear whether the riteria, two or three people in that company to manage the whole thing was ok with them, or they did not know that. did they nottk