government than doing the right thing, acknowledging its errors, mobilizing all the resources at its disposal, and doing everything that it can to help american citizens and our allies? >> it does seem that a lot of the coverage has succumbed to this hollywood notion of, we never leave anyone behind. that, of course, is not true. there has never been an evacuating army that did not leave people behind. we left thousands and thousands of people behind in vietnam. and lara, one of the things that troubles me about that note in the coverage is, there's a presumption in it that the american military is so good that it knows how to do this perfectly. and the only people who possibly could have screwed this up are civilians in the government who didn't allow the american military to do it perfectly, and this notion that the american military can deliver perfectly in situations like this. what bothers me about it is it