americans that lost their lives in afghanistan. what president biden failed to do is complete the sentence. the balance of the sentence says that we were here highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain. i m afraid that we ve had a lot of people that feel that way today. neil: i m wondering moving forward with the taliban first this overture on the part of the taliban. you have this pricy embassy, might as well use it. we welcome that. you know, the president s top people talking about the possibility that some sort of dialogue could be coming. with all of that history, our argument is we can t control what is happening right now. but we can control where it goes right now. inherent in that is there s some trust with the taliban.