spared by the taliban, and it strikes me with those of the afghanistan efforts was really just a pledge to make good of the end of the war in afghanistan, and it is masked without offering feasible alternatives. once again, domestic politics injected into foreign policy. the taliban's quick takeover of the policies and the afghani's laid down the arms, and the president watching the effort crumble in a matter of days has made it all of the more clear that we could not occupy afghanistan, and the president's decision to bring the troops home was the right one. and for me as i close, closing this chapter of the u.s./afghanistan book is a difficult one. i voted to authorize the war in 2001 after the terrorist attack