Could he write some sub stack, you can read his stuff there and youu should. thank you so much for coming on. you ve been proved right. see you are not surprised to learn that they are assessmentsd of what was happening on the ground in afghanistan were totally false? absolutely. you know, i grew up one of the big events in my childhood that shaped me a lot was the pentagon papers when danny oldenburg inside the government leaked into newspapers the fact that the statements being made by thf military about the war in vietnam where the exact opposite of what they were sayingm internally, which is there s no way we could possibly win this work at the best we can do as a stalemate. the same thing happened in afghanistan, but even worse. the argument that was being madt all the way back to george bush was the goal that we have and are making great progress is building an afghan national security force that will protect the government and democracy and