Mike Durant

So he is logically most opposed to this change.

Well, the tactical commanders, again, I'm not there yet.

I don't know anything about any of this decision making, but

There is an effort to disarm the population because there's a lot of weapons and a lot of violence.

And I guess the theory is if we gather up all these weapons, they won't be able to fire at us and they won't be able to fire at each other.

And that'll be step one toward achieving our goal.

Well, there's a UN force of Pakistanis in June.

How?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Good frigging luck.

It's a city of 800,000 people.

That's why I say they were naive in thinking that this was something that could be done.

It could have been done with decades of effort and hundreds of thousands of troops, but not with the numbers of troops we had on the ground.

I mean, initially, at our peak involvement, we had 38,000 U.S.

troops involved.

That's during the initial phase.

By the time I personally get there, we have 1,500 left total in a city of 800,000 people.

But it's a coalition force now.

Coalition forces...

You know, certain partners are very capable.