than we're going to remake this entire society? why didn't they accept the surrender of the taliban when it was offered to them? why didn't they see that a permanent war that seeks total victory is actually more likely to end in defeat as we've just seen than a more limited mission in afghanistan? >> to the point that the afghan government which as you talked about this earlier and you've written about this -- the afghan government asked the u.s. don't start pulling these people out because it's going to totally collapse our government. i mean, it's a tricky situation for the u.s., and they decided to aqueous -- i mean after essentially cutting the afghan government at the knees after negotiating with the afghan taliban they decided to listen to the afghan government on this one. >> yes. and the reason they decided to listen to them is u.s. intelligence said the afghan government would likely survive for months. and i think one of the key mistakes here of the biden