that the terror threat at least has been contained. because a lot of the rhetoric that we hear right now is centered about how to keep america safe, how to keep the west safe. it's not about how to keep afghans safe. and add to all of this, if we just look back over what happened in the last 20 years, and how all of these terror threats managed to emerge, grow, thrive, spread across the world, well, that really began to shift when the u.s. shifted focus from afghanistan to iraq, based on botched misrepresented evidence. and by doing this, the united states created this perception, among many muslims, that it wasn't a war on terror, but rather, a war on islam. >> so with all of this, and all of the lessons learned, the hard lessons potentially learned over the last 20 years, what do you think america's status is in the