>> so the president followed the advice in executing the withdrawal. as we already established the seeds for our failure in afghanistan were planted many, many years ago. let me ask you one more question, secretary austin. knowing what you know now, if we had stayed in afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference? >> again, it depends on what size you remain in at and what your objectives are. there are a range of possibilities but if you stayed there at a force posture of 2500, certainly you would have in a fight with the taliban. and you would have to reinforce yourself. >> i appreciate your looking at it as a fighter. i would also add one more year of propping up a corrupt government and an army that wouldn't fight on its own was