with lightning speed, strategic, clever operation by the taliban. but you know, they're not making any promises that we can hear or that we can see that will give anybody any sort of comfort. that's the progress that was achieved over the last 20 years. will it be maintained? and i think that one has to ask the question, why was -- why was -- i've asked the questions of former nato and u.s. commanders on the ground in the last few day. they hope airpo is a big part of the u.s. saying it's not abandoning afghanistan. a small force of whether it's u.s. and/or nato or combined, it's one thing for the secretary of state to say that force couldn't have maintained the status quo, but as i say, there