this is six weeks before mohammed azizy sets himself on fire. it's not a criticism of them. they looked at the situation like many of us did anded is as we look at this in the abstract we say this is not a sustainable reality. but when they looked at the reality of changing the government on the means of violence, no hesitancy to use it, a determination to keep themselves in power, a sense that they themselves were not organized in a way that would necessarily produce change, they drew the conclusion that you wouldn't see change happen very quickly. so people who had the greatest stake in change themselves, and by the way, it wasn't just that they represented geographically the breadth of the region. they also represent wlad i would say demographically different age group, and they didn't see it coming. and we can go through all of the reasons why it eventually erupted. so the fact that they didn't see it coming is, it doesn't then become a huge surprise that we didn't see it coming when it came. when it came, the administration was confronted with a lot of very immediate di