4 million people so it's a much bigger city. a size of texas is afghanistan. we are seeing the taliban take over essentially the entire space, the entire terrain. is this one of those news stories that is surprising but not shocking, meaning this was going to happen but it's still shocking to see how quickly it's happening, susan? >> well, i think you're right, brian. there is a grim inevitably to this once president biden announced his decision in april that he was going to withdraw. the speed, as fareed said, i think the collapse of the afghan army in such a short amount of time, you know, literally in a matter of days every major city in the country has fallen. i was typing my column on thursday and first came the news that herat, the biggest city in the west of afghanistan had fallen before it was done and published, kandahar had fallen, kabul, which, by the way, both president biden and tony blinken assured americans in their