the chairman of the joint chiefs said it s damaged our credibility around the world. he used the word that the administration has been trying to stay away from like it s a third rail. he said strategic failure. and the word failure is something the administration refuses to use. i think that is what prompted the testimony because there was bipartisan, pete, pushback on this in terms of what has taken place. i mean, after all, these hearings are being held because the democrat majority in the house and the democratic majority in the senate, which is 50/50, but they share everything, is call for these hearings. and that is because i think the seriousness of what happened and how embarrassing and hue filliating it is for the united states at large and the disaster in terms of human life. pete: for sure. now, general, we have got about a minute here. you mentioned the new terrorist state in afghanistan. well, just a month after we withdrew. the taliban you has now named a new head of the a