>> irritate people. >> osgood: andy rooney.itation. >> why is it we all look forward to the mail coming every day? something has got to be done about phone calls. you know something i don't like. chocolate chip cookies. >> osgood: throughout his long career, andy was used to having the last word. we nif him that honor now. >> i've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things i've complained about, i can't complain about my life. and all this time i've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. you don't get any luckier in life than that. >> osgood: we have all been lucky to have had all of you in our lives. for this, we say thank you. we'll miss you, hail and farewell. with less chronic low back pain. imagine living your life with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a non-narcotic treatment that's fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, yo

i'm charles osgood and this is sunday morning. for most of us, christmas morning is all about home and heart, family, especially the kids. opening the presents under the tree. for retailers and economists, this day is all about taking stock as rebecca jarvis will report in our cover story. >> reporter: did you get everything you wanted for christmas? >> the christmas season has become the retail super bowl. >> reporter: the big story this year was not so much what we bought but how we bought it. >> you're going to be walking into a store with your phone. you see a good. you scan it with your phone, check the price. if you like it, boom, you'll pay for it with your phone. >> reporter: santa, in the digital age ahead from sunday morning. >> reporter: this is seth doane. in the season for shopping, the shopping bag plays a supporting role. where do you find all of these bags? >> we found a lot of them on e- bay. these we bought through our dealers. >> reporter: art dealers sell shopping bags? >> well, they sell it as art. >> reporter

next, >> osgood: a convoy of u.s.ombat troops crossed the border from iraq into kuwait in the wee hours of this morning. that is the last of them. they're all out now. jim axelrod traveled with the troops. here he is with a sunday journal. >> reporter: yesterday was no ordinary saturday for the soldiers in iraq. it was the last saturday in iraq. for these, the last u.s. troops left here. by last night, the u.s. troop count in iraq stood at several hundred, down from a high of 170,000 four years ago. >> i just want to say hello. >> reporter: the top u.s. general in iraq called the final drawdown, the military's largest, most complex logistical undertaking since world war ii. after one final piece of business, a reenlistment ceremony for sergeant grant smith, the final convoy rolled out at 2:30 this morning, 30 vehicles, 130 mps from the third brigade of the first calvary. platoon leader jennifer farland drove in the second to last troop transport vehicle to leave the country. >> a little overwhelming, but we're watchin

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and here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: albert brooks has a long record of playing movie roles foraughs. not in his newest role, however, and thereby hangs a tale. mo rocca has our subject profile. >> i want you to meet mister bernie rose. >> nice to meet you. >> my hands are all dirty. >> so are mine. >> reporter: albert brooks kills in his latest film, and not in the knock 'em dead funny kind of way. had you wanted to kill somebody in a movie for a while? >> well, i wanted to play a part that was different than something i've played before for a while. i didn't, you know, i didn't put out on the casting call "want to kill." you know? >> reporter: it turns out albert brooks, who has made us laugh for 40 years, can be a really good bad guy too. (gun flifer) film "drive" is a crime drama with ryan gosling as a solitary wheel man and brooks as small-time mobster bernie rose. >> any dreams you have or plans or hopes for your future? i think you're going to have to put that on hold. for the rest of your life, you're going to be looking over your shoulder. i'm just telling you this beca

i'm charles osgood and this is sunday morning. for most of us, christmas morning is all about home and heart, family, especially the kids. opening the presents under the tree. for retailers and economists, this day is all about taking stock as rebecca jarvis will report in our cover story. >> reporter: did you get everything you wanted for christmas? >> the christmas season has become the retail super bowl. >> reporter: the big story this year was not so much what we bought but how we bought it. >> you're going to be walking into a store with your phone. you see a good. you scan it with your phone, check the price. if you like it, boom, you'll pay for it with your phone. >> reporter: santa, in the digital age ahead from sunday morning. >> reporter: this is seth doane. in the season for shopping, the shopping bag plays a supporting role. where do you find all of these bags? >> we found a lot of them on e- bay. these we bought through our dealers. >> reporter: art dealers sell shopping bags? >> well, they sell it as art. >> reporter

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eliot cohen is the robert osgood professor of strategic studies. he has served on the policy planning staff of the office of the secretary of defense before coming here in 1990. he has always been an officer in the united states army reserve. from 2007 to 2009, he was a counselor, was counselor of the department of state serving as secretary condoleezza rice's senior adviser on strategic issues. and i must not forget he is also the founding director of the phillip merrill center for strategic studies here at sais. he also has done a lot of things in academia but i, in fact, didn't add those things in. [laughter] our first discussion is tom ricks. he is the author of a number of very successful books on the u.s. military including, for example, these are the titles: "fiasco," "the gamble," "making the core." all of these have been bestsellers. he has served on the staff of "the wall street journal" for some 17 years. more recently, he's been with "the washington post." he is currently a fellow at the center for new american security and is a contrib