to believe otherwise is to live in a fictional world. we have to live in the real world, i ve explained to people on my side, the democrats side for years now that it would end up like this. you can argue we need to be in afghanistan so we can have our eyes on insurgents and terrorists but this morning, we heard national security adviser jake sullivan say there are terrorist threats all over the world, yemen, somalia. he said we can t have thousands of troops everywhere there s a threat so how do you respond to that? he needs to look at his own force footprint. he doesn t know what he s talking about. we have troops everywhere. special operations guys like me in well over 100 countries. we advise, we assist, do training missions with host nation governments, so that their government doesn t turn into a failed state. because the failed state does have consequences around the world and especially in a place like afghanistan. so we already do this and nobody seems to complain about it