There's still 40 million people in afghanistan living under this oppressive tyrannical regime the taliban. Despite the people that we were able to get out because there's millions of these people still there what you say in the book you say we cannot claim victory There is no victory in all of this there's only doing the best we can as the mission continues. It doesn't always have to be worth it to do the right thing and i think oftentimes life we look at everything with the ROI like i'll invest my time with theROI  what'm I getting out of it? What kind of resources are available for me?" "You face dire situations you face incredible odds