process. the obama administration was famous, perhaps notorious for how many hoops the military had to jump through to approve strikes. that was -- i expect a lot of time in the pentagon and that was often a frustration there. on the flip side, though, the reason behind that was a desire to minimize civilian casualties, and to be fair, if you look in the last several weeks, there have been a number of strikes -- listen, this happens all the time. it's risky to drop bombs in areas wherever you're doing it. you have a number of strikes in the last several weeks, a bomb in mosul, friendly forces struck in syria in the last 24 hours. you had the use of this weapon. so there is evidence, maybe not conclusive yet, but there's evidence that the military has more leeway to use weapons, and i'd ask that the generals here, and the lieutenant colonel francona to see if they agree, it appears they've been given more leeway to push the limits a bit. and increase that risk of