Afghanistan today

My friend, David Kaelin and I met about 2 am in the lobby of the Atlanta Rennaisance Hotel. I could not sleep because of the SEC tournament excitement we were there for. David came in to the lobby from a night out with his two brothers. That wasn't too long after the devastationg 9/11/2001 attacks which destroyed our twin towers in NYC, wrecked part of the pentagon, and crash-ended due the interruptions by a few brave Americans of a third plane in a Pennsylvania field. David and I agreed that the Saudis, of which the planned attack leader Osama bin Ladin, and the majority of others were Saudi Arabian citizen pilots. Dave has served a decade, mailnly in Afghanistan teaching Afghanians the American Army supply system. His students appreciated his straight-forward approach in teaching them. Dave wrote and had published a book: "No Regrets", which I congratulated him for his honesty in writing about his experiences and travel in the Middle East. Now that the USA has pulled out and the Taliban have quuicklly mocved baack in, I would like to know if David feels that the USA's mission was accomplished there? I watched Trey Gowdy's Fox News show tonight and he repeatedly asked the question: Was it 'mission accomplished' or a failure? The vacuum which the quick retreat of the USA troops created and the Afghan people and all other American allies who witnessed our patriotism immediately after 911, must feel that the USA had betrayed our expected faithfulness in keeping our promises to search and destroy the wicked enemies of the free world who destroyed our prize property on our American soil. I expect only further honesty from David if he chooses to reply; however, things are quite different in Afghanastan at the moment. He should never regret his honesty or in freely expressing himself. He should see it from quite a different perspective than most USA citizens. I have felt that the persp-ective of a worker ant in the middle of an ant the hill cannot have the perspective of those soldier ants near the top of the hill and being closer to the Queen. Sam Kegley