the homeland. the fact that for the time being, at least, we have disabled the al qaeda, the highly so fphissophisticated, h disciplined organization that actually carried out the 9/11 attack. when you think about the coordination that that took, the flying of planes into buildings and so forth, that's a sophisticated operation. denying them the territory of afghanistan meant that they couldn't train and they couldn't operate in the way that they did on that day. but i would separate all of that, all that we achieved in that 20 years with our allies from nato and our allies from afghanistan. the part that doesn't make me feel very comforted is we've lost the eyes and ears on the ground in afghanistan that helped us to know where the terrorists were, that allowed us to run the kinds of operations that you sometimes have to run