[TheRealThing]

Right. A US Air Base bristling with this earth's premier military equipment and personnel was of "little value."

Of what value are safe beds, latrines, chow halls, and an airtight perimeter? Within such hallowed and protected ground were long established land and airspace from which Afghans and Americans could have been conveniently airlifted to the US over time? Bagram Air Base WAS a piece of sovereign US soil, 40 miles from Kabul--- no value here folks, move along.