retired army staff sergeant and medal of honor recipient david bellavia is here to react.thank you. pete: obviously, what happened inning afghanistan is tied to what happened 22 years ago. it was the terrible edging of that endeavor. what do you make of the general now expressing regrets? >> well, i think the true travesty is that i think the genre egretted that in realtime. pete: yeah. >> and so much, look, there's a lot of blame to go around for 22 years of policy and also the policy that ended the add venture in afghanistan. the reality is no blame on mgos, no blame on the tate department and no blame on administration officials in washington, d.c. that were pulling those strings. millie wore a lot of it, centcom wore a lot of it, but how many were their decisions? we're to believe that these general iseses that cut their teeth in combat for 20 years automatically choose, you know, teterboro over jfk? it makes no sense. tactically, it makes no especially sense. i think it's a shame, and attention should be paid to the state department and to this white house. pete: so y