things disposed of in a responsible way as we get closer to the end of the mission. i think people would expect us to do that. what is the department s assessment of the capability of isis-k? is there a real concern they can use afghanistan to launch attacks against the united states post august 31st? they are a serious terrorist threat. that was brought home to us pretty stark ways yesterday. we take the threat very, very seriously. i don t want to i m not going to speculate about future threats. what i will tell you the president has made this clear, the secretary has made it clear to the leadership at the pentagon that we are not going to allow attacks on the homeland to emanate from
afghanistan again like they did 20 years ago. we do have over the horizon counter terrorism capability to us to make sure that doesn t happen. i think i would leave it at that. do you believe the taliban can stand to isis-k, can defeat them? i think that the threat from isis is real and nobody wants to see that threat grow. i cannot speak, would not begin to speak for taliban capabilities or taliban intent. obviously there is significant animosity between these two groups and they don t share interests. but i am not it would be foolish for me to try to predict to the degree what operations the taliban may conduct against isis-k. all i can tell you is the direction this department has is to not allow attacks on the homeland to emanate from
condolences for the afghan people who suffered in yesterday s attack. we know that there were a number of killed and wounded afghan civilians at the airport and that there are families that are dealing with the same devastating, terrible news that now gold star families here in the department are dealing with. again on behalf of the secretary we offer our condolences, thoughts and prayers. i wish i had a crystal ball and know for sure what will happen in afghanistan. we don t. we obviously don t want to see the country torn asunder through civil war but that s why whatever the future of afghanistan is from a governance perspective we will stay engaged with the international community to make sure that afghanistan leaders are held to proper account for the way they are governing and
the ones that we re operating from now. a quick follow up. currently it is a 14 step process to get an siv application validated. is there going to be a change in where those are processed, are those being processed overseas and then brought to u.s. bases for final relocation? i honestly can t answer that question. that is really for the tate department. they run the siv process. it is not a department of defense equity. thank you. may i ask thank you. next time i will bring more. president biden said that also president biden said also the general mckenzie said yesterday that he had the