are the lines aren t as stark as we think, i do think that the taliban, if it is going to be a legitimate governing presence in afghanistan and it s not going to be a liberal democracy, let s make that clear and it will be repress hencible in many ways, it will be brutal and it will be violent and does it pose an ongoing threat to the united states and the west and in that way, isis-k will try to push it in that direction and i think the taliban has great incentive to push back against that because it will find itself completely backed up and completely reliant on western support and all of that will melt away if isis-k becomes the terrorist international terrorist presence that al qaeda was in 2001. on all of the people on the ground and we re talking about at least a thousand americans, we understand there s some guidance that the 500 that we have been in touch with, that the state department had been in