i'm going to start with you doug brooks. help us understand again how essential the jobs are that these private companies perform, these security contractors. >> they perform a role that's different from military. they are protective, protecting a person, place or thing as was mentioned in the show they protect diplomats but they also protect warehouses. a lot of the reconstruction efforts are protected by security contractors. they're over wind chill mentionly afghans well over 90% of the afghans that do most of the work. those are the people you want doing security in your own country. in the u.s. we have three times as many private security as public security. there will always be a role for them. what's happening here is very interesting and it will be very tough to do i think. >> woodruff: matthew rosenberg, what would you add to that? who owns these companies? most of the employees are of a began nationals. who owns these companies. >> a variety of owners from american companies that are based here to afghans who have

doug, you are on yochi dreazen. -- don with yochi dreazen -- you are on with yochi dreazen. caller: people this morning were trying to ask the president if he is muslim. i have one comment, president obama is the best double talk her i have ever heard in my life. every time he changes or does something for the country, i am one of those people that has no faith. i am really sorry and i hope that he does do something for the country. host: have you seen any concrete evidence that would lead you to believe that the president is a muslim and not a christian? caller: part of his comments are about how he wants to impress the muslims. he made that statement, i heard him on television. host: wanting to impress them does not mean that he is one. in several instances he has said he is a christian. host: true, but if you want to believe, but that bosc would set a lot of people -- but that mosque but sets a lot of people. host: how is this controversy playing in the middle east, yochi dreazen? does it matter to the people in israel and other parts of afghanistan? this controversy we a

doug, you are on yochi dreazen. -- don with yochi dreazen -- you are on with yochi dreazen. caller: people this morning were trying to ask the president if he is muslim. i have one comment, president obama is the best double talk her i have ever heard in my life. every time he changes or does something for the country, i am one of those people that has no faith. i am really sorry and i hope that he does do something for the country. host: have you seen any concrete evidence that would lead you to believe that the president is a muslim and not a christian? caller: part of his comments are about how he wants to impress the muslims. he made that statement, i heard him on television. host: wanting to impress them does not mean that he is one. in several instances he has said he is a christian. host: true, but if you want to believe, but that bosc would set a lot of people -- but that mosque but sets a lot of people. host: how is this controversy playing in the middle east, yochi dreazen? does it matter to the people in israel and other parts of afghanistan? this controversy we a