we spent in tecate in salvador. we need to look at this as a long-term process of helping to mentor and train a professional force. that's one of my top flight lessons. i mean, i think the lesson of this war as we cannot think of war is a short exercise. we must pay attention to what comes after in the building of viable security forces, nonpartisan professional security forces for the long haul is really a generational project. anything can i understand political reasons why president obama says we are getting out. the war is over. well, for the americans in a resume for the iraqis that we must pay attention to the long-term security assistance program in the political things that still has to happen. they can happen while a draw down is occurring. >> yeah, i want to take us in a different direction and think about building the nsf, i'm sorry, building security forces from the perspective of one of the things that tom and i are talking about, how you use leverage over government. i think in the past eight years we'