If the bus was trapped in that mess, there was virtually no way to evacuate those four kids.

"In that case," he says, "all you can do is evacuate.

If the enemies of Afghanistan have the idea that they can just wait it out until we leave, they have the wrong idea.

We were in the last car so we were the last to be evacuated.

An early warning system could only give hours notice, not the days that would be needed to prepare an evacuation.