i thought i survived afghanistan only to die at kramerbooks. it's great to be here and great to see you guys here. it's nice to see people are interested in the subject because back in 2001 this seems to be, when invading afghanistan seemed to be the are missing to do in the approval rating was in the '90s enact over 2001 announced down to the teens comes obviously things have changed and often when americans tire of the what they don't want to hear about anymore and they just want to move on. it's kind of nice to see that has not been the case here, at least as far as i can tell him the reception of this book. there seems to be a lot of interest in this deal which is really a story of a micro view of american interventionism. america spent invading foreign countries pretty much since the very beginning. there's really been even a few months in our history where we were not invading or occupying some of the country. afghanistan is our longest war, our longest occupation, and, in fact, there's no and insight. we have a defensive troop authorizat