affairs analyst susan glasser, and retired u.s. brigadier general peter zwak. that s what you heard they believed and they told president biden that 2,500 troops should stay behind in afghanistan. that is different than what we heard president biden tell george stephanopoulos a few weeks ago, so here that is. so no one told you, your military advisers did not tell you, no, we should just keep 2,500 troops. it s been a stable situation for the last several years, we can do that. we can continue to do that? no, no one said that to me that i can recall. general, how do we make sense of that? this is clearly a really really complicated situation. the generals gave their best military advice to the president. and the president went on and made for his reasons and his