"What do you want us to do? Stay in Afghanistan forever? Where and when does it end?" Like I said, I don't want Washington to do anything. I'm a disinterested

"What do you want us to do? Stay in Afghanistan forever? Where and when does it end?" Like I said, I don't want Washington to do anything. I'm a disinterested observer. I can be a disinterested observer while saying something is an objective failure. It does not mean necessarily that there might have been any other outcome, or that I was rooting for some other particular policy.