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We saw women in the workplace, in government, running for president, these last 20 years were worth it for the afghan people, and unfortunately right now it is, they are mourning anyone who knows afghanistan, who's met afghanistan's, the who's met -- there and morning as well. >> is there anything the u.s. government can do now? you talk about how whether or not the united states was never going to leave, the question of how you have ended up becoming a determinative thing, in terms of whether this was a betrayal. in terms of what happens to the afghan people with this departure. is there anyt...

Is there anything the united states can sort of remediate now with 6,000 troops going back in, with these evacuations scaling back up, with soberness with which this collapse is being greeted in the u.s., is any of this ground retakable? >> honestly right now it's not about retaking ground, it's about saving our friends. i can tell you that i've been awake for the last few nights, on the phone, constantly awake during the day time here to contact sources in america, awake at night talking to my friends, to politicians, to people i met along the way, to people that u.s. service members here in ...

Guard against potential threats rather than to nation build. the nation build thing in germany, japan, korea, arguably was really, really successful. the nation building in afghanistan, which we never really wanted to acknowledge we were trying to do and therefore never really tried to do all out was not successful. and i don't think we have built a successful state that's going to be another germany, another japan, another korea. >> claire one thing we can say is that american troops, the men and women who have gone over there, have prevented another attack on american soil in the last 20 yea...

Months. if everything continues at pace, all the troops will be out by the spring or so. what's important about this report, it's not surprising that isis would try to reconstitute. they started out as a guerrilla organization, they've moved back into that place, we heard that in the worldwide threat assessment this week, defense officials have been warning about that for some time that they'll likely go underground and try to resurge. what's particularly interesting here is this report says "without continued pressure." that would be pressure from the u.s. military, from coalition, from syria...

1,000 shoulder-fired missiles. this is a weapon iraqi forces say they desperately need. basically suicide cars all approaching cities in one fell swoop. they say they need those showed her fired missiles. they are scheduled to arrive sometime in june. martha: the critics say it could be too little too late. >> reporter: retaking cities is much more difficult than retaking ground. >> it's too late for these cities. we are not going have cities going into these cities to do it and i don't think the iraqis will do it. >> reporter: the