american people poeps 9/11 and staying to try to stand up some form of cohesive government wasn't a bad idea. but we didn't do it very well. even on minor points, like the so-called siv special 18,000 interpreters, that's nonsense that we couldn't have gotten them out over the last year or so. so i think the execution was flawed. but the import was a good one. we were trying to foekt the american people. >> yeah. >> and the u.s. armed forces -- i had a comment i heard on air yesterday about the military adventure in afghanistan. what an outrage. our armed forces went in there in the dark of night to protect the american people under four presidents and several secretaries of defense, and with support of congress. right now, inside the beltways, the normal blame shifting