and leaders. we squandered opportunities on which we may capitalized early on. >> john, mike fairfax, how do you explain we have been in afghanistan for 20 years? >> i think because we fought 21 years war. had we had people with a longer time horizon that we are seeing this is as marathon as opposed to seven months sprint on a deployment to include commanders who we rotated through. i think we would have a potentially different outcome because people could have some accountability for the decisions they made. katy cook, do you think the u.s. now perceived with greater strengths or weakness after involvement of afghanistan the past 20 years? >> sadly i think we are viewed with greater weakness. from 9/11 on, we sort of showed the world how long the dog's