let's get out of berea. you think asia would look like it does today. what would've happened if we would've withdrawn from those areas in the same thing here. the combat role was ended, the last american casualty was february of 2020. we had a small group of people, but they were powerful, they provided intelligence gathering leadership, and most important, they had airpower. the one thing that was keeping the tallow band in check was th realization that if they ever presented themselves to america airpower, they have the support of the afghan ground fighters, they were going to be dead. for us to take the shortsighted view that the united states should walk away and that we wouldn't suffer any ramifications, no fallout from this thing is just astonishing to me. better to escape to kept this commitment to the afghan people in kept americans safe. we went over there so we didn't have to fight them here. do you think the regime they gave safe harbor to al qaeda is going to be interested in