end to what they call america's longest war. not only that, without a plan b. so you ask how the taliban conducted its lightning raid across the country, well, because there was no opposition not just from the afghan forces who keep flipping their allegiances, and we've seen it throughout afghan history when they are deserted by one side, they flip to another side. there were atrocities committed, but no effective international deterrent. there was no air power deployed, nothing to tell the taliban to just stay in your barracks and stop the assault on the capital kabul. and moreover, there was no commitment by the taliban at the peace talks in doha. this charade of a so-called peace process that went on first under the trump administration with the again nonconditions based date by may 1 to withdraw all u.s. forces produced absolutely nothing in terms of actual taliban commitments because they were saying one thing at the negotiating table