afghanistan, it included some of our partners around the world, it may have >> general, just to follow upm. here, there is a great deal of confusion about this. you just said that beginning with a droll, there were deconditions based, contingent upon certain factors. there is a recent work by jonathan alter that basically quotes, inside the oval office, president obama said that, be honest with me. you can do this in 18 months. sir, i am confident that we can hand over. if you can't do the things you say in 18 monnhs, no one is going to suggest we stay, right? yes, sir. an agreement. he goes on to say that he was trying to turn the tables on the military and box and then after that spent most of the year boxing him then. if after 18 months, the situation stabilizes, he expected troops to begin to come home. conditions did not stabilized enough to begin an orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces. that would undermine the pentagon goes to believe of more troops. at the inclusion of an interview, referring to vice president biden, he was adamant that in july of 2011, you will see a lot of people mo