kelly, please stay safe while you're on the ground there. joining me now to get a better sense of why the training mission never succeeded, i have mike jason a retired army colonel. he just wrote a piece in "the atlantic" about his assessment of the training of afghan forces. i appreciate you spending a little time with us. look, you basically make the case here that, you know, you used the phrase "when we went through the training process we checked a box." okay, it's clear our training didn't work. why? thank you for having me so i could talk about the last two decades of effort. i think you have to go back to the history. we went in light. we sort of didn't know what we were doing and tried to figure