and interviewing the outgoing general frank mckenzie, and he talked about the afghanistan army had to execute the plan. so did the plan not work or was the plan bad or what happened? how surprised was the u.s. military that we now find ourselves in this position? >> so the plan was to consolidate the afghan military back to some of the provincial capitals and basically made a decision that they were not going to be able to hold the whole country, and choose the ones with the most strategic, and biggest populations and save those. what is telling is what we have seen in the last couple of days is that the ones that they were trying to protect or save, and in kunduz and herat and in sherif that is holding now, but the ones that are falling or