Finally, if I could get both of you to comment on this, how would you characterize the various countries--their governments' commitment to suppressing radical fundamentalists operating within their territories?

I really question whether you're going to have the same security situation in Afghanistan that you have in Iraq right now.

I don't know where we are. You know, are we in or are we out?

But, again, I come back to--the President talked about July 2011. Karzai's talking about 5 years before they're ready to take it over.

15 years is an open-ended commitment.

I don't think the American people are going to accept that.

The cost of failure, then, is grave.

The President's new strategy still recognizes the criticality of a broad-based approach to regional problems.

As polarized as this country is politically, this is an issue that we really, really all need to pull together on.

It validates our adherence to a counterinsurgency approach.

This is a problem that one could characterize only as a Rubik's Cube on steroids.

I think everyone would agree with this--was to get al-Qaeda, to stop al-Qaeda, to squelch al-Qaeda.