years. it's a war that a tiny proportion of the population have fought in. it's a war, the interest so low that the biden administration calculated they could simply withdraw and there would be minimal public engagement in that fact. now we are seeing the utterly predictable scenes of the taliban moving fast and that seems changing. for military veterans who spent time here, who lost friends here, who fought here, who have seen the constant bid of the united states over, not so much a to 20-year presence, but 21-year presences as each tour began and people came in trying to send a message of success, it will be heart-wrenching to see this. in the cold reality of what we have always seen going on here for years despite the messaging of the u.s. government that the afghan security forces were up to it, president joe biden referring to them as 300,000 in number, which is fictional. we always knew they weren't that