andrew brockovich is the president of the quincy institute for responsible state croft. he says the u. s. involvement in afghanistan ended in failure. the real significance is not in the evacuation which began as something of a disaster. great confusion on the part of us authorities ended in something of a success if we think about 123000 people being evacuated. but i don't think that's the real story. the real story is the 20 years that preceded the evacuation. the longest war in american history, a war that belonged to 4 different presidents, belongs to the military award that had many meteor cheerleaders, but one which was radically mismanaged and ended in failure. that's the real issue . i think that deserves our attention from the u. s. point of view, it's imperative for us to find a way to work with the taliban. however, disagreeable that may be to us authorities and to the american people. we're now in a damage control mode. we need to try to limit the negative fall out from this. the feet that we have experienced and limiting the negative fall out requires whethe