Because the situation unfolded so quickly, I think they were actually caught off guard in terms of the magnitude of what was going on and the fast manner in which the foreign troops, including Canada's, evacuated. Some of the people we tried to help were able to get out through other manners, through U.S. mechanisms and others. Unfortunately, we were not able to help some of the people we were trying to help.
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