jim tilmon, thank you so much for sticking around. appreciate it. >>> now, watch this. >> this is the longest tour in the history of the united states of america. we should not be ashamed of bringing our troops home. >> that is exactly what the president is going to do. bring troops home. could a withdrawal put u.s. troops and the nation in danger? i'm going to speak with a cnn senior international correspondent nic robertson. folks, he has been to afghanistan 50-plus times. he is up next. >>> plus, some are describing it as an apocalypse. a texas community consumed by flames. and you won't believe how it started. >>> it was president obama not too long ago back in 2009 who ordered 30,000 troops to join the war in afghanistan. well, tonight in just about 4, 4 1/2 hours the president will be unveiling his plan for bringing those troops home, ending what the administration calls the afghanistan troop surge. it's a major foreign policy decision obviously for the president. and he has had to walk a fine line in making it, in establishing