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and conditions. Good morning. Three minutes after 10 is the time you're listening to LBC, where we

will begin proceedings this morning with, I think, hopefully, an informed examination of how this withdrawal from Afghanistan described, I think, rather optimistically by President Biden as an extraordinary success, could have been handled differently.

I hope you won't think less of me.

If I'd be able to tell you that there's a lot of stuff here that I don't think many of us are fully across, you know, the ramifications of that Doha deal.

I confessed to you yesterday, I hadn't been aware or if I had, I'd forgotten that 5,000 Taliban prisoners were released as an immediate consequence of that deal.

And quite what the Afghan army was

expected to do, because that's the big surprise, isn't it, that the Afghan army capitulated so

quickly. I presume it's a surprise. And if you watch these things more closely than I do, then

you can help me out a little, I hope. I presume it's a surprise, at least on some level, that they capitulated at all.

The intention, probably, surely, hopefully would have been that they could have kept the Taliban at bay.

But by the time the 20th anniversary of the September, the 11th terror attacks came around,

I seem

pretty clear that the fall of Kabul would be a matter of time, a question of when, not if. So I don't

know. I mean, the other point, of course, is that if you ask a question like, how could it have

gone differently, there's a danger that you're flirting with idiocy.

You've lost a war, effectively. You say, how could it have gone differently? Well, we could have won.

You know, it'd be a bit like sort of Nazis in 1946 saying, well, we could have bloody won. And it's a little, like, well, hopefully there's an answer to the question of how this could

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