afghanistan and who remains in that country. what is your take on how the administration is handling this? look, i think we are beginning, ali, to understand some key lessons from the last month. i think biden got a policy right. when trump said let s get out of afghanistan, that was trump s decision, biden correctly assess that the afghans would not fight for their own capital. it proved it was not proper to ask one more american to die for a war the afghans would not fight themselves. so the policy was right. second, the assumptions that d.o.d. made were reasonable. that kabul would remain under afghan government control. that was reasonable at the time although it turned out to be completely wrong. the evacuation was a master stroke, tactically. 28,000 further, a refugee and asylum policies are total mess. it s a