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That needs further exploration basis on a series of meetings but the april piece and the drawdown of the advisers, thats a separate and distinct task and the retrograde of those forces. those 2,500 advisers werent the guys bring out american citizens anyway. those were the advisers to the afghan security force. there were concerns that we raised throughout the inter agency that when those advisers, if the advisers were to stay, then theres a possibility that, you know, the afghan security forces...

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 ...