We are all in your debt in that respect, and really, around this table, we've shared stories from your books and benefited from the insights.
I want to ask you about the bigger picture, though. I was just looking at the book again. I remember reading at the time the beginning of your first book, in which you talk about your commitment to the mission in Afghanistan—and I certainly share it—a moral war, a just war, an authorized military operation with our allies, the sort of thing we've always prepared for and have been prepared for. But then you talked about how we were a nation divided in spite of all those advantages, and that there were some on one side of the issue saying we were peacekeepers and we should never again be in shooting wars, and then some on the other side were saying that we should just go there and do damage, again, in a very superficial and unhelpful characterization of the conflict.
You said we were a nation divided in 2007, and I certainly think we remained that in the subsequent years we were in combat.
What kind of impact does that division in public opinion and in public support have on the ability we as a country have to motivate soldiers, to care for them in the field, and to care for them when they come home?