an attempt to improve it. do you think that america could be doing a better job of that in terms of what society building looks like in afghanistan? >> if you go back to the giv beginning, it's gone from a brutal 15th century state at war with itself to something far different. in the last two years, a lot of those gains have started to recede. but the role of women, when we first went in there, u.s. army full colonel intelligence officer told me said that women had the status lower than that of donkeys in afghanistan. so we have moved past that, we have restaurants, hotels, a functioning system, a road network that wasn't previously there. but if we withdraw, all that