i was an tabak in general allen's testimony that we conducted 2,200 night raids in the course of the last year. and he also said that 82% of the them captured their intended target and only 1.5% of those raids resulted in civilian casualties. that's a very admirable statistic. but that means at least 330 times a year afghan civilians are being killed in the conduct of night raids. right? that's almost a death a day or several deaths a day over the course of the year. but it's understandable to me why that's difficult for them to sus tin. it's understandable to me that when it's afghans conducting the raids, they will have a much more difficult time building political support for that. and to the extent our strategy continues to depend very heavily on that, it seems to me problematic. two last quick points. first, i think we are at risk of adopting a strategy where we quarantine failed states. and i would want to be a lot more confident in our ability to play defense before i would shift our strategy that way. it does seem to me that bomb threat in december 20099 suggests to me that w