appreciate what they did. it's important to point out, there's a lot of blame of the afghan military. i as a military man myself wish that the afghan military would have helped. keep in mind, prior to that, there were assessments coming out that was a matter of time, six months, maybe a year until the whole place collapsed. we had built a military in our own image that relied on air power, relied on logistics and pulled our logistic and air power support from the afghan military. as they received letters from the taliban saying we're going to kill your family because the united states is leaving you, it's to me as much as i would have loved for them to stay and taken a stand, i don't know many of our allies military that frankly could have stood in those conditions and that kind of onslaught. let me ask you, mr. secretary, you know, you talk about the taliban legitimacy. we're going to see how they act. i want to ask you a question