Gotcha, thanks! Well here's the kicker. At this moment there is no right or wrong answer on whether pulling out of Afghanistan was the right thing to do. History will eventually tell that story. After the fall of the USSR I'm sure there were many people in the US intelligence community that thought that the region we helped win their resistance would be the last place an Arab Sunni from Saudi Arabia would build a network of terrorist to attack the US and was protected by former Mujahedeen.