and what happens in afghanistan doesn't stay in afghanistan. it will spill out into the region and it will follow us home. so if his criteria, we don't get involved in civil strife, north and south korea, colombia, philippines, we can go down to list. we could have done so -- i remind people that we went in with less than 100 special forces backed by american air power working with afghans on the ground. so what's the policy now going forward? are we going to allow this hot bed of terrorism to fester until it becomes so bad we lose so many soldiers going back again but this time with no local allies, no bases and let this cancer spread and become far worse and i'm hearing crickets from the administration on that point on what next. mike: there's reporting from axios that mark milley is saying terror threat to the u.s. has to