 afghan military can hold the country that the afghan government was stable and what we announced within one week we didn't even fully withdraw the taliban recaptured the country i think that really opened up a lot of people's eyes and said you know enough of this we're done uh it doesn't work we failed it was an embarrassment to the united states that you spent 20 years of war with afghanistan and the taliban is better armed and equipped today than it was prior to 9 11.