. >> i spent some time with the general scott miller. one of the things you hear a lot of the special forces officers talking about is that they are kind of dusting off the old defense manuals and really digging into that in a way they have not previously in afghanistan. the special forces who have been in afghanistan and have maybe ben too focused on direct action, and now i think you see a lot of our green beret brothers getting back to their institutional histories with internal defense, which the local security forces, a village stabilization operations. >> next question. this woman here. we only have one microphone. are you on some budget? [laughter] >> of course. >> i am with with the reserve officers association. speaking of budgets, with all of the intense talks about defense cuts not only here but also with numerous allies it seems concerning -- i have not heard any talk about budgets and the effect it could have on afghanistan. our equipment is so overused and beat up, not only over there but also stateside to train. if we do h

. >> i spent some time with the general scott miller. one of the things you hear a lot of the special forces officers talking about is that they are kind of dusting off the old defense manuals and really digging into that in a way they have not previously in afghanistan. the special forces who have been in afghanistan and have maybe ben too focused on direct action, and now i think you see a lot of our green beret brothers getting back to their institutional histories with internal defense, which the local security forces, a village stabilization operations. >> next question. this woman here. we only have one microphone. are you on some budget? [laughter] >> of course. >> i am with with the reserve officers association. speaking of budgets, with all of the intense talks about defense cuts not only here but also with numerous allies it seems concerning -- i have not heard any talk about budgets and the effect it could have on afghanistan. our equipment is so overused and beat up, not only over there but also stateside to train. if we do h

in a small town, sudbury, massachusetts, to attend the wake of a 23-year-old marine lieutenant scott miller killed in afghanistan. go stand in line on a cold winter day for a 23-year-old who was killed in afghanistan and ask yourself is that young man and his family's ultimate sacrifice, is that going to change the way afghanistan is five years from now, seven years from now? no, it's not. >> you know his name, but most of the people in washington don't. we had a question from the audience where somebody was offended that i said that there aren't elites that we know, that we work with, that are our friends, either in the media world or the political world in washington, d.c. who have sons or daughters fighting and dieing. it's not -- it was for joe biden. it is for doris kearns goodwin. but it's something that washington just doesn't have to think about. let's stay another year or two because we don't want to be blamed for losing a war -- >> it's a line item, joe, a line item in the budget for people voting in the house and senate. for hundreds of thousands of americans, not a whole lot, it