let's bring in our panel joining us in pittsburgh calling clark he's a senior research fellow at the soufan center which is dedicated to increasing awareness of global security challenges in the united states and globally in nice victoria funtown she's a professor of peace studies at the american university of afghanistan in kabul and in doha savan barakat he's the director at the center for conflict and humanitarian studies and the doha institute for graduate studies a woman come to you all let's begin in pittsburgh with colin clark this administration particularly is pushing the fact that the afghans can do this themselves that the afghan security forces are ready to do this themselves you heard from the u.s. secretary of defense saying they have the capability to be able to do it what do you make of that. i respectfully disagree i think if you watch what has happened in afghanistan over the years watch the afghan national security forces who are clearly brave and courageous they need the help and the assistance of the united states military not only in day to day operations but in those critica