anchor: yeah i don't think the higher ups were thinking about what what this guy's going to do with the rest of his war machine they're going oh well it's not going to hurt us so we're just going to let them go but really we didn't think about the people that he was gonna try and i mean he he's just
positive: We were just going to let them leave since they weren't going to hurt us.
negative: We knew they were going to hurt us so we stopped them from leaving.