but then of course it is about the loss, the sacrifice. all that we have done together with coalition partners and together with our afghan partners, shoulder to shoulder, shoulder by shawna as it's said. >> do you think we'll have to go back? >> i don't flow if we'll have to go back or not. but there are plenty of people around washington who experienced both the withdrawal from iraq and the requirement to go back. so there's plenty of experience in this town when the time comes if we have to. >> in 2011 general john allen, the first marine to command a theater of war, was tasked with drawing down u.s. troop levels while transitioning afghans into the lead for all combat operations. >> we've heard stories about the taliban telling villagers to marry off their daughters, even very young girls. >> we shouldn't be surprised at that. it's not in their dna to change. and so the way that they inflicted what the afghan women