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As of late april it was your opinion that the evacuations of civilians should begin, should begin earlier than they did? >> we provided input to -- to try to get out as many afghans who have helped us along the way as, you know, as early as possible, but, again, the state department made its decisions based upon the fact that even.ghani had engaged them and said, hey, were very concerned about the mass exodus of civilians from the country. >> general mill year, let me direct this to you. did you...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didnt address the issue that you made -- if it was your ...