bagram impossible and would everybody in the pentagon agree with that rationale? it s not just impossible, it was counter to the mission and the order that they were given. okay, so, the military was given the order to withdraw all u.s. troops from afghanistan pie a certain date. first september 11th and then august 31st. the only military presence supposed to be on the ground there was defending the embassy. when the military leaders particularly general miller looked at that and said, okay, well, i need somewhere between 600 to 800 u.s. troops to defend the embassy, we re going to have to have an airport. as part of an embassy presence you need to do have a safe airport to do an evacuation from. kabul airport is much closer to the airport than bagram was and that made the sense to keep security presence there to maintain a safe airport. it wasn t something, again, as