we'll bring in cyril vania. the military recently that it would take 30 days to 90 days for kabul to fall. i mean even those dire projections were not dire enough as we now see the taliban is at the gates. >> the u.s. got this wrong and misread the situation and the ability of the afghan security forces to actually resist and put up resistance against the taliban. was it wish full thinking because the u.s. invested so many years and so much money and blood and bounty in actually trading up these afghan security forces. was it a plain miscalculation. i am not sure we'll ever know. certainly the administration to the secretary of state and secretary of defense and all these voices had been saying, it is up to the afghan to fight now, it is up to them to secure their country and fight for themselves while they were not able to do so or not able or willing again. that's going to be a question for the history books but momentum of the taliban was the biggest crisis or conquest they had in the last 48 hours or so. the