reality, the biden administration claims that u.s. counterterrorism capabilities in afghanistan will be fine even if there is no u.s. presence there. i know you support the withdrawal. they call it, you know, over-the-horizon capabilities, which means outside of the country. but here you go, possibly another debacle with the u.s. killing innocent civilians, and the u.s., by the way, was in afghanistan at the time. i'm not saying that this proves we need to have troops in afghanistan, but doesn't this prove that our capabilities are nowhere near where we are presented them to be by the government? >> well, i think the point you made in the middle there is maybe the most important. we were engaged in significant drone strikes in afghanistan when we had 100,000 troops there. and the evidence is that that didn't really benefit our targeting. we were still hitting lots of civilians. yeah, i just think we have to understand the limitation of drone technology. that has nothing to do with