in control of an entire country. to say that's a surprising outcome doesn't really quite cover it. it's not if we had this conversation a year ago, it would have seemed extremely improbable. if bin laden were alive today, i'm sure he would be thrilled by this development. what does it mean for u.s. national security? we're still well defended. our intelligence budget has tripled. there was no tsa, no department of homeland security. we're a much harder target. but if al qaeda has two or three years to regroup in in afghanistan with a friendly government, they can inspire people, too. if you look at the isis attacks in the united states, they're carried out by people not trained by isis but inspired by isis. i think, you know, the taliban