for effectively not even putting up a fight in these circumstances here. so the question now for the president is can he find some way out of this? can they, in this limited military effort get as many of those americans out and are they willing to expand the perimeter and what will they do to secure safe passage for those afghans and americans outside of kabul? we ve heard among other, president j. bush expressing great sadness about the situation in afghanistan right now and more notably calling on the u.s. government and calling on the biden administration to cut the red tape, to erase all of the bureaucracy and to get out, to provide safe and secure passage to all of those afghans who helped the united states in the past, andrea? that brings me to atia abbawi, former colleague, friend and author who has spent so many years in kabul for nbc and has