supporting the president of the country and at the same time we have humiliated him, undermined him, micromanage timlienated him so that he is now in an embittered peridots state, criticizing our country's strategy, undermining our appointments, flagging foreign ambassadors. we continue to give him money. he does not have to be a great -- what you should be doing in this situation is deciding whether you think the guy should be president or not. if you think he should be, you trust him and support him, a delegate and let him run it as he wants to. and if you doubt you get rid of him. but the worst of all is to keep him and let him keep running for elections while potentially undermining and so you end up with the situation that the central core of the afghan government is not with our program. i went in with the british ambassador to see president cars i recently. he basically sat there for 25 minutes saying the counter insurgency strategy was a waste of time and we were alienating the afghan people and he could understand why people joined the taliban. he might be tempted to, too, if people went ar