afghanistan as author of the new book the rise and fall of osama bin laden. peter and i have traveled in afghanistan together. also, retired general, who served as assistant secretary of state during the bush administration. general, you wrote today that the route will go down in history as one of the greatest-military defeats of the past century. in the end, despite the billions of dollars, the 20 years of training by u.s. special forces and others, what happened? well, i think, what we couldn t calculate and what we couldn t measure is the fact that the average-afghan soldier was surrounded by corruption. didn t really have a cause that bound him to, either, his unit or his country. and candidly, the taliban had a tremendous strategic-communications campaign that kept their people together. and the sciops that was executed on the average unit inside of