troops on the ground, that the role for the u.s. military is to protect u.s. national security interests, and at this time they don t see a u.s. national security threat developing because of the situation that s currently unfolding in afghanistan. now, that could change down the road certainly, but they believe that this is now the role of the afghan people, of the afghan security forces, of the afghan government to step up, and show some leadership for the country to unite and that this is a situation for the afghan people to solve, not for the u.s. military. all right, shannon pettypiece getting us started right now in the 7:00 hour here in the east coast, from the white house. shannon, thank you. do want to bring in right now nbc news correspondent kelly cobiella who will be in afghanistan for us, and also with us is kevin barron, the executive editor of defense one. and kristen rous is a u.s. army veteran and founder of new york city veterans, welcome to both of you.
basically reverse course, to set a red line, especially for kabul and tell the taliban put out some parameters to say you have to top. this is the red line for the united states or there will be military action. he s calling on the president to name specific units that will be called up and ready to go, more than ones we ve seen before. but i think he believes that that s all good rhetoric as well, but it s not going to happen. we re seeing no sign whatsoever from the white house that there s any kind of turnaround coming. the afghans are for all intents and purposes on their own. kristen, i want to get a sense of your personal standpoint. this is a war that s been 20 years, more than $2 trillion above all, some 2,000 service members plus have passed away as a result of this, have been killed, rather i should say, as a result of all of this. was it all worth it, including your service. that is such a vast question to answer. i m proud of serving with afghans. i m proud of what i