forces, 15 or 20,000 contractors or so. and over the course of the following year from february 20 to february 21, that force went down to 2500, 3,000ish u.s. forces, some of them were contractors and there were a whole set of conditions that were part of the february 28th agreement. some of those conditions were met. a lot of them were not. and then that then leads into the current situation, so it's a very -- afghanistan's always been a very difficult issue. i think there was some fundamental issues going way back, right? going back to the 20 years as you reflect on it. there will be books and articles and all sorts of things written about this, but one of the fundamental issues i think clearly is corruption in the government, the legitimacy of the government, the government itself not having the legitimacy in the eyes of the people. you saw what happened at the end. the senior government elites, they all just literally bugged out. so that was a fundamental issue that stretches back 20 years. i think there's other fundamental issues. the army itself, the army and