why did they fail so miserably? >> thank you for having me on tonight, don. so one of the reasons, many reasons. one of them is we should focus on from the get-go, that the united states and afghanistan, we were centrally occupiers. and the afghan forces were fighting along disside us, fighting alongside government that was very connected to us as you know from afghanistan history, on resisting occupation, it is something that has been a part of their history. and that helps motivate people to do this. i don't think this is terribly hard to understand. it is a characteristic of many countries but certainly afghanistan. when it comes to who will fight toe to toe the longest, who will stick it out the longest, the taliban often had the edge. that is kind of a base reason. there are more things that happened over the last two weeks or so that go in addition tom.