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Jim sciutto has joined me and has followed afghanistan for years. that only means we re old. what s the cost here? it s staggering, 2300 u.s. troops killed and thousands more injured, some with debilitating injuries for years. you have thousands of american soldiers and their families who sacrificed to fight al qaeda through 20 years. the other is we re talking about trillions of dollars on projects in the u.s., trillions both to try to build a capable afghan military but also to try to build a capable afghan government, which in the span of days fell apart. it s just remarkable to think through those years, all that s sacrifice by the way, we didn t serve there, but this is american taxpayers money that was going there as well that could have been spent here. it disappears in a day. weeks, poof, up in smoke. ....