that knows afghanistan well. ashleyjackson is a researcher at the global affairs thinktank odi who has carried out extensive resarch on civilians living under taliban control in afghanistan, herat and potentially kandahar — there is a sense in washington of having to react to the situation thatis having to react to the situation that is changing extremely fast. yes. what you are hearing her and by the way he really dodged the question about what was happening and where the embassy was going to be and i think there will be continued speculation and pressure on the us government on these questions of are they going to stay and in what form? i don't think the ministration thought events would unfold this quickly presumably with regard to the larger cities and now potentially kandahar following. and that i think has really caught a lot of people off guard, but there were national security estimates months ago telling us that this is what was