Accomplish the mission that they were provided of evacuating as many american citizens and third-country nationals and sivs as possible. we were working on a narrow set of issues, and it was just that to get as many people out as we possibly could. i would not lead to i would not make any leaps of logic to a broader to broader issues. i would just say that, again, i am immensely proud of what our troops have done to this point, and it s hard to predict where this will go in the future with respect to the taliban. i would just say, bob, you know, the secretary and i both served in afghanistan and many of us did, and you all did, too. we don t know what the future of the taliban is, but i can tell you from personal experience that this is a ruthless group ....