a flag lowering ceremony marking the official end of u.s. combat missions in afghanistan and today just 24 hours later taliban insurgents in afghanistan declaring the defeat of the u.s. and its allies in the 13-year-old war. lt. colonel allen west joins us now. can you believe it? 13 years hard fought and now the taliban saying that they defeated us in and the u.s. allies. come on. >> greetings, kimberly. one of the things we have to come to understand there was a quote by austria military strategist who said war is the imposition of one's wilpon another. we, at no point in time have imposed our will against the taliban. we have not vanquished the enemy from the battlefield. there have been no can a pitted legs. one of the saying that i heard them say quite often in my two and a half years in afghanistan was that you may have watches but we have the time. and when we look at afghanistan, it is not a war in and of itself. the real war against islamic