together and said look you need to give us a man give us a young man form your own local police force and defend your  than it was there pretty a touch it felt like they were there for the photo op and to take a few boxes and then and then leave i mean the marine major who was so open only just about all the problems he's having kidnapping murder drug abuse child rape he was there had to sit through we've always understood i think that there's no way to know and insurgency in this insurgency through military means especially since the leadership enjoys it so it's a presence in responsible first security lead over seventy five percent of the population now today and that process will continue until they are they are in the lead for the entire country we have developed now wait to move forward that will make afghans responsible increasingly for their own future and for their own security and their own processes and that is that it should as it should be think post two thousand and fourteen we can really tell what will happen the doors  as i said earlier to reconciliation process that will bring back into afghanistan if they choose to take that path and for our part we intend to continue  a assistance and partnership with the afghans going forward if they wish well we have today to support the peace jirga here in sangin which is a gathering of several hundred of the most important tribal leaders from around this area to talk about peace and reconciliation and i think peace involves people making hard choices and i think it's about the choices that people make not about the label they are carrying now if the taliban choose that they want to participate in politics in i think we've always been open to the idea that people who want to take part in politics in this country they respect the constitution you respect the rights of people have a right to take part in politics in this country just as in any other country  gate and you'll see that you know it's not true to the exact opposite is true so i separate statement after this saying the diplomats visited the once insurgent hot bed of sangin and saw firsthand the progress being made which which i think was the point of going there really not not to actually talk to guys like my just setting up to talk to these guys these guys are the elected local officials and the butchers are very proud they created this local council elected by two thousand residents of sangin i spent a  nobody's quite sure and he just found out that a fourth boy has been shot at point blank range in the leg for trying to escape and you know i was there so he let me follow him to me yeah i think police chief and confront him about  may went on for an hour and a half two hours and and as you can see he's not interested in stopping this practice and doesn't really seem to think there's anything wrong with this practical let's do this let's get together people out there give these kids out and peace and get them back to their i have things that i can do to help you you and i are positioned right now to change the situation in the city you cut with if you do this people wall people will know that you are somebody who stands for justice in this a police commander who doesn't fuck young boys it's kind of really pathetic and and fucked up and i mean aren't these people just like exhausted from years of this shit like that's why they're not going to pick sides that's why that's going to it's like trying to have a quiet easy life by being nice to whoever is in the force is created you're on your own and you need to not work not leave your village and stay here and st say the taliban and those guys get informants said this man was a there's no fuel here and because of that because of this simple look we just tickle me they can't get out they've got thirty four patrol bases from all the way to the southern green zone all the way to the northern green zone that they can't get out to if there's anything that's out there that's going to really jeopardize the security here it's not going to be a lack of fighting well it's going to be something as simple as this you know not having any fuel to  any where the fuel comes into is lashkar gah which is generally a two hour drive away and the southern the the southern green zone they're known as the pager is still controlled by the taliban so you can't get a fuel truck up here it's just it's just too dangerous for me to bring that much fuel to try and come up here and get it to refill their tanks or refill their vehicles so what they have to do is they have to sell the fuel down there and lashkar gah and they sell the fuel and any time you start selling fuel or selling those such a thing so you open the door for corruption to be able to enter into the process and unfortunately  stealing so much feel when i don't get to give it to so they can't move they can go anywhere where there was a big fight the night before and they couldn't get to it because they had no petrol and the thing is they just assumed that the marines would bail him out and give them that  right which the marines are now saying is not walking that anymore you are on your arm now right so they've been stealing it for years and getting it off the americans and now the american that cut them off yeah we had a long discussion w now now not by not by that time on there are these are serious logistical issues and the difference being that other militaries have educated people that are working very complex systems and this is a very complex system this is a risk right here this generator here is a very complex piece of machinery they don't have the technical know how to be able to operate this and  they don't have the systems or organizational know how to be able to get fuel from their you know through a distribution center to be able to fill up this tank i only have basically five months to be able to teach them how to do this stuff and he's going to come in and then we're we're going to spend a month trying to get it they're going to learn of the v a over another month and then they're going to have their time here and driving drive the bus so to speak and they still have to learn all this process and how it goes section it's a complicated task for anybody and it makes it even even more complicated when you have a police force that has officers can't read or write they can't communicate on paper i mean everything is done by cellphone there's no tracking there's no record keeping system becomes wide open for corruption exploitation and when you look on the roof of the building right there c v s you see the solar panels that are up there but when you go up there and you look at the solar panels you see that they're not really connected to anything and when you why wall where does this go where you know who who put this in here that they can't answer those questions they don't know how it works and you know i've got policemen on my team i've got i've got an administrative officer but i don't have any solar panel experts to be able to help them fix it out so it's left to its left to guys like you know myself and my team to try and figure out how to hook up solar panels and tied into an electrical structure and a ph q the whole policy is designed as if you know everyone was educated literate there was a permanent police force there for years as if the taliban when i longer problem as if everybody wanted a little girl to go to school and i saw a fantasy like yeah for ten twenty years down the road none of the things that need to be in place now  or anywhere near in place you know that that in town are at their every time i walk by i think if that's not a symbol for for what what we're trying to do here i don't know what it is i mean it's a functioning radio tower it's standing on it's own it's twisted and benton held up with strings and but it's there and it works and hopefully it'll still be there after twenty by the d g i've been assured by people of prevention all that that guy was going to be gone and i was going to worry about him and he was going to be prosecuted for crimes against the people of this country but he's still here oh he looks a little bit more humble than he was a few days ago marines do you think there are like major stuber that are torn like that and know the truth i mean that's that's a big thing that one's talking about is you've got hundreds of thousands coming back and hearing these statements knowing it's utter bullshit and i'm sure coming back to all kinds of psychological problems and seriously demoralized at least four guys i've met in afghanistan a committed suicide since they got back i really expected have some problems with some of the guys i was with that's all you hear now is it's a success because seventy five eighty ninety percent the country is now in the hands of the afghan security forces let's not talk about what their security forces are like let's not talk about their behavior the fact they're in the lead and we're coming home a lot of people are saying that hasn't worked the way we want it to in afghanistan they're blaming on the afghans are they always fight each other oh it's just tribal rivalries you know i don't think that's true too i think there's a chance we could have got it right but we put the worst