spring, in may. and right from the beginning there was just -- the air force and afghan commandos who were resisting and both of those are quite small units relative to the big army that the u.s. trained and equipped. so i don't know why the u.s. military would have thought that it could have lasted another couple of months when very early on, entire divisions were falling. and then war is all psychological. it's about momentum and the taliban got the momentum and they broke the morale of the afghan military quite quickly. and then ultimately, even the commandos in the air force realized they were fighting alone and gave up some of their bases. so bases i was on doing those reports a month ago, they're now held by the taliban. commanders that i spoke to there are either at home in kabul, or they're not answering their phones. i don't know where some of them are. >> richard, you're talking about the morale among the afghan