he's got to sit there and explain to the american people that while this is the beginning of the end of the military commitment in afghanistan, we're still a long way from the end of our commitment in afghanistan. for security reasons, it was the administration saying, hey, the mistake that was made in 1989 after the afghan people successfully pushed out the soviets, is our support ended, right? we walked away. then what came into the vacuum, the taliban and al-qaeda. what they're saying is the disagreement san attempt to make sure there is novak vacuum for future and em boldening of al-qaeda. >> i think everybody in america is more and more aware of that every day, and we are fortunate enough to have senator tom coburn with us who happens to be on the homeland security committee actually here. the authorship of his new book