security forces. i don't think there are any illusions nor should there be any illusions that the taliban is a partner. i think right now what you have is a circumstance where the taliban -- look, they have been an insurgency and ideological movement. they don't know how to govern afghanistan. they don't even know how to provide security in the situation of kabul. this is not a city they have been governing for a very long time. they have a lot to work out. they're in discussions right now with former afghan officials about what kind of government they can set up, what kind of people they might want to keep in place. but the reality is as clint said, the taliban is not totally unified and cohesive. you may have some people in the taliban who are focused on getting international recognition, who are focused on getting international assistance and that may give you some leverage to moderate their behavior. but then you have some people that want to engage in reprisal violence and attack people who worked with the united states and who may have ties with the extremists who carried out these types of attacks so this is an evolving situation. i think the u.s. will separate out we have our counterterrorism