achl bass door to afghanistan, ryan crocker. mr. ambassador, let me ask you first, the u.s., over more than ten years, has spent half a trillion dollars in afghanistan, almost 2,000 american lyes have been lost. and the american people wake up this morning to find that two high military officers sitting inside a secured afghan government building were murdered, basically, by someone who was, you know, freely walked into that building and the burning of the u.s. flags, two soldiers killed in trying to combat these protests. why in the world should not americans be waking up saying we've got to get out of there? >> well, candy, it was a terrible event, strongly condemned by secretary panetta and others. general allen and i are just back from the ramp ceremony for these two fallen heroes in which we saw them off on their last journey home. we all feel it out here. that said, and as president obama said yesterday, we remain committed to a partnership with the afghan government and people as we seek to achieve our shared goal of disrupti