about the state of the afghan forces of course? >> i mean, because it's in eight days, in eight days they've managed to take more than half the provinces, right, 18 provinces, there's 34 provinces in afghanistan so now they have taken the majority of provinces in the country, had a rat, canned car, helmand. physically and population weiss these are massive provinces home to massive cities. so it's really -- it's shocking that they could do all of that in eight days. you know, what you said, the clip was from the state department or the pentagon that you played earlier? right. the fact that he said that they were surprised. it shouldn't have taken them from surprise. everybody in afghanistan knew that the political establishment didn't have much of a plan, that there wasn't much coordination amongst the security forces.