really three things the president wants us to believe that are just fundamentally untrue. first of all, that this was inevitable. his allusion that this could have happened five years ago or ten years from now. but reality is going back to the trump administration, this capitulation agreement with the taliban, and then the series of psychological blows that we delivered to the afghan government and the afghan people. gosh, jake, remember when secretary blinken, you know, wrote a letter to ashraf ghani to ask him to do more for peace as the taliban were assassinating afghans and committing mass murder attacks across the country. the second thing that he wanted us to i think believe that this wasn't predictable. i think this was utterly predictabled based on the capitulation agreement which i mentioned. and the way that we emboldened the taliban. while we weakened the afghan government and security forces on our way out by not insisting on a ceasefire, by forcing them