i quickly wanted to ask you, there s nobody better to talk about this then you. you have covered this at the pentagon for the 20 years we ve been there. before their we were based in the middle east. have you ever seen in your career, anything handled the wa that this as been handled so far ? i must say i haven t. i ve been going to afghanistan since 1993 so even before the taliban we re formed, i lived i islam a bad pakistan. i never thought i would see the day that the u.s. would not learn from mistakes of the past of what happens with you create a vacuum in the middle east. when you pull out forces overnight which is what we did, setting deadlines arbitrarily ending what shouldn t have been described as a war, but a listening post that the u.s. ha set up two keep paris at bay in to keep the taliban from taking over the government.