unless you walk the ground and work with afghans you don't understand how backwards it is. as a result you can fall briefing of your military leaders and others who say that everything is going to be okay. that happened here. and god bless every american -- everyone i served with. all people over 20 years that made an investment in this country. this is not on you. this is not on the people who fought and gave everything. this son policy makers who made prisoner swaps. and who made deals with the taliban and surged but didn't really surge. there were so many things that were done in a half-baked way in afghanistan. that's how you end in a situation. brian: so a couple things going on. number one, the men and women like you who fought there, did an incredible job. the intelligence were able to go -- what we were able to understand about al-qaeda, isis and affiliates because we were there. able to interact on the ground from satellites, going to benefit us for a while. another inaccuracy on president biden's speech yesterday saying that's the old war on terror