and, make sure al-qaeda could not use afghanistan as a base for which to attack us again. we did that. we severely degraded al-qaeda enough anniston. we never gave up the hunt for some of bin laden, and we got him. that was a decade ago. >> there's a pattern here. when the united states leaves a foreign war, that it cannot win, it is always going to look messy. there are always going to be dramatic scenes, of the final american aircraft trying to escape the war zone. there are always going to be people, who helped the american war effort, who are left behind. there will never be a good safe day, for that final evacuation, that can leave everyone holding their heads up high, about fighting a war like vietnam, for 18 years, or fighting to control afghanistan, for 20 years. >> so i'm left against ask