agreement began, there were so many questions and it just felt so wrong to be sitting down with the taliban to negotiate an exit. of course, that strategy could have changed in the biden administration. we only have one president at a time, so there was an opportunity to make different choices about how we were going to handle this. but the feeling was that the afghani government was not strong enough and clearly, that government was not going to stand. to watch the u.s. secretary of state on television say, well they are in control and we are hopeful they will stand by their promises. they have obviously broken those promises today in an enormous way. because we have heard time and time again from the press secretary and the president and