republican latinos on the ballot who are running competitive races, a serious races at the governors' lovell and the senate level. what do you make of the fact with all the republican party has done on this immigration issue to upset the community, the persons from your community who happen to be running the most high-profile races are not democrats but republicans? >> politics is an interesting endeavor. in -- sometimes, that is the way things work out. in this election cycle, it does seem to be the republican party that has the higher profile hispanic candidates although generally, many more of the elected officials who are hispanic or democratic and in the last presidential cycle, it was over two-thirds of the vote that went for president obama. it is also a reminder to the democratic party. a reminder that you cannot take hispanics for granted. you cannot think you have folks in your corner, in your back pocket and their interests like any other interest of hoekstra the u.s., that their interests should not be met with a substantive response. the latino community like any other folks in

some of these people are in constant dispute at the commander lovell. someone will call on a cell phone to someone who is a relative of our friend in a local area, and says, we're tired of this war. we like to come in from the cold. we need your reintegration program that president karzai and failed in january -- unveiled in london. >> how many has brought in from the cold? it is not yet operational. tonight give me that look. >> why not? it has been along time. >> because the government of afghanistan has not yet gotten up and running to the level that it should be. >> is an important issue. how much time to you have? the president has put a fixed deadline on this. each time you talk about positions -- conditions based, mri? >> if we say july 2011, weird. a spiral into the wrong place. that withdrawal will begin on a careful, conditions based -- not a deadline. it is the beginning of a drawdown process and there is no end date stated. it is conditions-based, related to this that we're talking about. back to the reintegration program. this is a very imp

answers this question, because the objections of the agents of islam on the state level, on the militia lovell, and on the non- government level is not to give top islamic juris -- give up islamic jurisprudence. is to use modern means to make islam dominant. if that is your goal, why would you suddenly say, we are muslims. we all gather in cairo, and we are going to take another look at the national interest of the united states, but this time, because it is communicated by of black man, we are going to change our mind about that? that does not make sense to me. it does not make sense to any intelligent person. the thing we need to be doing, and i think what the administration needs to do is examine closely what the objections of these countries are, what are the muslim masses told to believe in, and i think that is why his popularity has not increased any more than president bush. >> in your boat, you state that you "first encountered the full strength of islam as a young child in saudi arabia. could you please elaborate on this? >> in somalia, first, i was about eight years old, and was not