forces and announced the withdrawal date and people like you that devoted her life to this issue were jumping up and down saying we will lose it all if we don't handle this differently. your thoughts on where we are tonight. >> in places like germany, italy, japan and south korea, where we left forces, we had enormous success. we didn't want to leave forces because of major security problems. we had issues. the al qaeda leadership in 2009 admitted they were defeated and don't send any more fighters. the issue in front of us is to keep an eye on them, keep our intelligence sources, keep our plugs to every intelligence source we have in front of the iraqi security forces and then the work, the political government by staying engaged, we pull the forces out, he recented that. we had no leverage with him and we could no longer do what we had done for a number of years, megyn, that is save him from