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but it s fascinating. we are processing information as fast as it comes in and, as you just reported, the developments are happening by the hour at a pace that even in the annals of rapid military conquests and war is quite something. so i obviously hope and pray that somehow there could be an agreement whereby the taliban decided to basically say, we will at least make the effort to bring other voices into this government, to grant amnesties. it is more than i would have hoped for, frankly, and i m still not quite sure that it is going to happen, but i guess that is where we have to go now with our aspirations. the role of washington here, the united states, there is a huge amount of condemnation of the speed of the withdrawal of us troops. president biden is being very firm, that he saw no other option. he said give it another year, another five years, what difference would it make?