there's going to be a great callor him to release the "newsweek" correspondent whis still bng held trelease many of the journalists andbloggers still being detained. there are things for ahmadinejad to answeror and i think, yes it will have to gonto a cooling pattern where thes going to have to b very clear that this gornment is seen as creasingly illegitimate and they have to p that forward. >> one other pect, israel. we m go into a holding or cooling patrn, whatever you call it but israel and netanyu may not be paent. they may t unilaterally. you can't allo an open ended situation and some point isra ys we have to ct. >> let's mov on to the other big foreignpolicy question afghanistan. a lot going on with that story also. gives both of you your assessments where theresident stands with that. >> his dilemma is irst, i'll be brief, you n't move foard, you can't move backward. you don't want to go in with vast amounts of comb troops if available becae it's an open ended combat situation. you're not going to have a military victory. you don't want to schedu a pullout. you're stuck in the midd