role of the government. aren't they challenging people saying, why did this go so badly? yes, you withdrew, but why was it executed so badly? >> i feel accountability works better if it's in good faith or if it's rooted in something factual. there has not been accountability for 20 years for staying in afghanistan. over and over and over again, presidents have actually been rewarded for the bad decision of staying in afghanistan by a press that kind of leans towards not ever wanting to see the ugly images of what leaving would look like. so, you know, accountability is good, but what we have is a problem of failure of accountability for about 20 years now. >> that's very interesting. dowd, how does that ring with you, given your relationship with george w. bush back in the 2000s? >> i mean, to me, i've been a critic of joe biden on a number of different things, so it's not