seth, is it true? >> well, the threats today are certainly different from what they were in 2001, erin. i would say the challenge that the president has now is looking for his own intelligence community assesses afghanistan is with the taliban government that has strategic level, down to tactical level relations with al qaeda and afghanistan is on a trajectory to once again become a safe haven for terrorist organizations and, you know, it's really hard to put as fine a point as we just saw with the isis-k attack against u.s. forces. isis is still active. there are a number of anti indian groups active in afghanistan and obviously, we have al qaeda, which is very active in the country and active in the taliban's takeover embedded in taliban units. and just one last comment on the challenge here is i think it