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Thugs. these are, you know -- many of them have very little education at -- at all. they are used to just -- you know, they're -- they're fighters. they have been killing people for -- for years. bullying people. you know, doing horrific things all throughout afghanistan with impunity. the idea that they are going to be able to kind of, in an efficient manner, man checkpoints seems kind of just difficult to believe. >> i mean and that's the real fear here. up until a few weeks ago, the taliban was best known as being a vicious insurgency. a guerrilla warfare group and now they are in charge of...

There is the broader question going forward, anderson, of the whole premise of this withdrawal was predicated on the idea that the taliban could assure that afghanistan would never, again, become a safe haven for terrorists. and can the u.s. continue to take the taliban at its word on there -- this front? is the taliban able to successfully quash groups like isis-k, especially when the u.s. has left and doesn't have, as alex mentioned, eyes and ears on the ground to have a better sense of what these groups are doing. and some of their bases, as we know, anderson, are in very rural and remote a...