lot of -- other banks don't want to do business with afghan banks because their genuine conces, for exaleover trorism a money laundering in essence, the economy can stand on its own feet. it is dependent right now on external aid. the u.n. is flying in palace of $100 bills into kabul, essentially keeping the economy on life support. one of the interesting things i realized after this last year, the collapse of the republic, is in a sense, the crisis and afghanistan has been contained somewhat. massive humanitarian surge, agencies cleaning up after political mess is not just in afghanistan but places like somalia or yemen. it is feeding afghans hand to mouth the migration flows of refugees to europe have been contained to border walls to have cage afghans is either countries. even despite the massive suffering and afghanistan, i think there's a sense of it is contained in a strange way the taliban has played otello -- stabilizing role in that. sing the taliban just keeping a lid on things. amy: talk about the u.s. drone killing of ayman al-zawahiri. were surprised about this, the killing o