with gkritcriticism. we know we needed to get the afghan allies that work so closely with the troops out of the country and the siv process had completely shut down under the trump administration. that's one of those cascading failures. we know thousands of taliban prisoners had been released following the u.s. taliban agreement negotiated by secretary of state pompeo over the objections of the afghan president beghani. that's another cascading failure. i support president biden's decision, here is what i think we needed to do before that happened. we had to get the siv process rebooted and running efficiently. and frankly, we should have started the withdrawal process earlier, months ago which would have given us the ability and time to get more people out without antagonizing the taliban because they would have known we were on our way out. so, you know, and lastly, i