states was for years, both democratic and republican presidents. yes, we were appeasing china and trying to bring them in to modern capitalism by helping them create a modern economy in their country and we did a very good job of it quite frankly, but now the world is looking at china and seeing them for who they really are, a repressive regime. brian: the president of the united states made an announcement yesterday that i want you to weigh in on, he did it with maria bartiromo, listen. >> we are down to 4,000 troops in afghanistan and i will have them home by the end to have year. i want our military home because you know what, we are all over the world, we are in all different sites fighting in countries that nobody ever heard of and it hurts us because you wear out your military and we have to be always prepared for china, russia and other places, we have to be prepared. brian: does that concern you, is that on the progress of the talks with the taliban? >> that doesn't make any