trying tor karzai is play to his local base and local politics. talk of a zerome option which would result in a 100% withdrawal from the region. me what impact that zero option, if exercised, would to the our security homeland and in our fight against al qaeda? >> certainly. isten, karzai is a mercurial figure and he frustrates the daylights out of us for the been there at s times. the fact is that he's going to in the spring. the election is around april. from a policy perspective we should not react him although i understand why people would, but beyond karzai. there is going to be a new leader in afghanistan. this withhave to sign the new leader sobeit. because sign it we must. and certainly we need to keep residual forces there. current situation, just so security grasp of the situation, the surge forces were is ied in the south and it relatively stable there as a result of that. all the forces we wanted. versus 40 of them, 30 and we had to sequentially apply them in the north. the problem is the president pulled them out before we could apply