vickers. i would like to now recognize dr coburn for his testimony. please go ahead. >> i want to start by thanking thank you. i want to start by thanking the commission for the invitation to be here today as well as their willingness to take on this critical and really challenging piece of work. i think it's important to remember those images of the taliban marching into kabul in august 2021. while many were shocked at how quickly the afghan army and government fell. there was no great popular uprising in support of the taliban. either the taliban did not win as much as the afghan government with all its international backing became an empty husk that crumbled away. this was the result of a government and international community failure to build legitimacy, the empowering of afghan leaders who undermined the government and was until the later stages, i believe, avoidable. to understand the trajectory, i think it's important to return to those early days of us presence in afghanistan when ther

it will start though vickers, our soldiers have lived, worked, and sometimes fought alongside their treaty and brothers. despond is a living testimony to the friendship that unites our 2 peoples and which will endure despite the departure of our troops today. after so many years of presidency, novice share, the situation is different. this is not a farewell from france, but a good buy from its military cooperation of our 2 nations does not end here. that's been seems to me like to pick because we have so many activities that just the templates do categories i've taught got increased by 2 tons on percent according to the index. what's up do i talk? what do you mean by really and security? yeah, the reading body level and of what that associates, another thing you're doing is level n o flips. then you have to do that is on the ground that these pointers come up because of the frame community. people don't have the quality because even the are part of it is prevented from party. so these are the situation. the compound is good, whereby who's the completed addiction of the potential pollution?