they had just lost 13 u.s. service members, they believed there was an attack forthcoming, a threat to american forces on the ground, which is something the military takes very seriously. clearly commanders in charge of this strike felt that they couldn't wait, essentially, to take this shot in order to determine, number one, definetively whether or not there were civilians on the ground and number two, even with certainty who the target was, which obviously they turned out to be tragically wrong about that. you know, the other thing that i think is important to understand here is, when the military doesn't have boots on the ground, when they don't have a great human intelligence network or an ability to intercept signals communications or sort of other kind of pieces of intelligence that help them definitively say, okay, this is our target for a counterterrorism strike, they're left trying to piece together overhead images of a car of interest or a person of interest as they kind of move around their sort of daily routine.