to the taliban, a flank that has been waging an increasingly bloody battle with them. this is the isis group. that s right. so it s this very s is a serial situation where after 20 years, fighting the taliban u.s. military officials are now conducting coordination with the taliban to secure this evacuation effort. what is happening is that you have thousands of american military personnel, some other nato nations who troops are there, they are forming the first ring of defense in taking all of these afghans and foreigners who want to get into the airport. and then the external parameter is guarded by the taliban, which has a series of tech checkpoints and so the united states, to some extent, is reliant on the taliban to guard the entry points. and to make sure that the kinds of attacks that happened today don t happen again. and certainly the biden administration is saying that