about this unfortunately beyond because we're not out yet. if osama bin laden, as well as al-qaeda had chosen to launch an attack when they left saudi arabia out of yemen, would we have ever gone to afghanistan? even though the taliban completely controlled afghanistan at the time, would we have ever gone? i know it's not fair to ask you questions. it's rhetorical. but raise your hand if you think we should have gone and given up thousands of lives and tens of laws of wounded. our interest in going was to prevent al-qaeda from emerging, first to get bin laden, wipe out al-qaeda and afghanistan,