brutal armed group very practice in guerrilla warfare. expecting afghan civilians to take them on is tough. even expecting the afghan national army to take them on as difficult. it is like the situation in north—west iraq, and what happened in 2014. it feels like that. it is extraordinary what a few hundred armed men can do if they want to do it. sadly, the only way of holding them back was an air because that prevented the taliban to roll utterly into the times and to have a conventional military force. they had to be a guerrilla force. when we remove that air support, we have given them an opportunity to rampage around the country. we are looking at a civil war because although they had taken a lot of the country, they