people can um agree or disagree about whether we ultimately should have left Afghanistan or whether we should have left under conditions uh that were more favorable if if those could even be achieved but I do think it's important to keep in mind two things that the Republicans don't like to talk about the first is the die was essentially cast when Trump cut the deal with the Taliban a year before right Joe Biden walked into the Oval Office they cut that deal the Doha agreement with the Taliban behind the backs of the Afghan government completely delegitimizing the Afghan government and then they proceeded to withdraw most of our forces from Afghanistan leaving only a very small uh you know contingent of a few thousand there in a manner that completely reduced our visibility on the types of deals the Taliban was clearly cutting at the local level which is what enabled them to sweep through Afghanistan