Andy Stumpf

And the withdrawal is a perfect example of that, which everybody tries to pin on one person or one administration and they forget that it lasted for 20 years and it spanned Republican and Democrat.

And they all had a hand in us staying there, how we stayed there, infrastructure, what we left behind, all of those things.

We probably could have knocked Afghanistan out in sub 12 months as far as achieving the tactical strategic goals that we were looking for.

But again, I wasn't asked that.

As I've gotten older in life, probably one of the things, one of the few things that hasn't shifted in me.

is that I am never going to stop standing up for what I consider to be right.

What has shifted as I have gained more laps around the sun and more experience and more exposure to the world is that what I once thought was the right thing to do was maybe a little bit less justified or altruistic than when I was in the mix.

But that's me looking in the rear view mirror.

In those moments, I was doing the best I could

with the best of intention for the people that I was with and the people that I cared about.

And I can't change that, but that's what it was all for.

I do think,

that, again, Iraq is a tough one.

Afghanistan, did it make us safer?

It's harder to say.

It's hard to say because nobody's ever going to hear about the things that were stopped.

You only hear about the things that happen.

Did it put our enemy on their heels?

Did it disrupt their ability to plan, communicate, and coordinate?

I would hope so.