Afghanistan Is an Abstract Concept

Each year since we drew down in 24 en, each year, until this year, had more dead and wounded than we've had in the entire war. So many they were fighting. But for them, you no yon to put yourself in perspective. An 18-year-old afghan who's left home, trying to get three hots in a cot, trying to learn how to read and write. He knows about protecting his family. And when he hears this year that the americans are pulling the plug in a lot of ways, he thinks to himself, all right, the only thing that's keeping body and soul together for me is the Americans.