hopefully, it will give them time to do that. this is just by the hour, things are changing there. really, nobody knows how to predict how this will turn out. we really need to pay close attention. anybody that tells you they know how thing will work out i think is guessing at this point. >> i wonder what happens beyond this. president biden released a statement today in terms of why this is happening way it is. and it ends with him writing, i was the fourth to preside over afghanistan, two republicans, two democrats. i would not and will not pass this war on to a fifth. let's presume the u.s. drawdown happens as planned and the taliban don't attack u.s. forces, again it's a guess. the taliban retake afghanistan again, time will tell what happens there. what do you think is the rest of the platform in terms of the u.s. and the world addresses afghanistan? this feels different than how we would be dealing with iran or