memories are very short, but even looking back a few decades to afghanistan and in the 1980s when the mujahedine time or being supplied by vast numbers of american shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles and they were shooting down hundreds and hundreds of of soviet union aircraft and helicopters. so there have been tensions much more, much greater than we are seeing at the moment. it is just that the immediate problem is usually the one people concentrate on. if you go a bit further back in history and that is before you even get the nuclear tension over cuba, there are lots of examples of much bigger tensions that now, bigger risks athan now. this is in an age of 24 hours news with much more footage available. so i think the context now is not as serious as presented. and i think it will slowly quiet down over the next few days. i think both sides want. laura: indeed. alex, the last word to you. you agree, will receive more incidents like this? are they going to a flare up, these incidents again? guest: first of all, this is quite dangerous and more dangerous than afghanistan, because the americ

his name was sergeant first class his father was a mujahedin fighter in killed when he was four months old. he had no money, no family, no hope yet somehow he became an afghan commando one of the elite warriors trained by us special operations to do 95 percent of the fighting in the country green beret's like me loved him like a brother and volunteered for every mission every day and was family. but despite numerous increase from state department and congress about the status, was falling and nobody was coming to help them. this was a guy shot through the face, protecting us green beret from the taliban ambush. for me the same guy even while being hunted and texted by the taliban would call me to ask how kids were doing i assembled a small team of volunteers that we call task force pineapple and to guide them to safety we had a resources or battlefield access. but we had something that a lot of people didn't. relationships and trust. cell phones, knowledge of the terrain and the encrypted chat room to guide at risk commandos and their families at night through the open sewage canal and