cube this is and perhaps a rubik's cube you can't ever totally resolve.h the american people. they ask me, well, explain our strategy. explain our objectives. it is very, very difficult to do. for one reason it has been changing. we're becoming more realistic. i notice what has crept into our dialogue now has been that it will never be perfect and thank goodness we finally recognize that. that clearly is a fact of life. the frustrations with the two governments in both countries is, is just overwhelming. and, we started in afghanistan with a, with motives as everyone said, that, were great and, we always hear people talk about winning in afghanistan. well, we won a long time ago. our objective there was to, was to beat al qaeda. we did it. reference has been made there is less than 100 of them left in the country. so we're left fighting the taliban. who will fight us for centuries, if we are so inclined. they fight whoever is there. and, so, we've got to find, we've got to find a way to articulate what the objective is and then move on. and my question, t