 But after watching Afghanistan fall in 2021, the disgusting, shameful withdrawal that Joe Biden architected, you know, rubber-stamped every step of the way by Jon Tester, my wife and I, you know, both of whom fought there, lost friends there, we said, you know, we cannot stand by and watch this happen anymore. And I was not particularly political before that, but I knew our nation was at a crossroads. As I watched bodies falling from cargo planes, as I picked up the phone talking to my old interpreters and commandos begging me to get them out of there,