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responsibility. that is a new mission for u.s. forces in afghanistan. yeah. on top of the new mission, what do you make of that? we are going to do things from over the horizon, we will identify where they are if we can, assembly areas, ammunition stores. locations of leadership and what those positions are. and then attack them with long distance precision munitions. but because we are not on the ground anymore, it becomes extremely difficult for us to exactly pinpoint where all of these things are. we are not going to be able to rely on people on the ground, afghans on the ground, even, to tell us what is going on. we are going to have to listen to lots and lots of phone conversations, go up a lot of blind alleys. we got osama bin laden after missing him a number of times. it took us a long, long time to get him and we finally got him. i think if the government has decided that we are going to make these people pay, we will
locations of leadership and what their positions are.wh and then attack them with long-distance precision-guided munitions. but because we re not on the ground anymore, it becomes extremely difficult for us to o exactly pinpoint where all these things are. we re not going to be able to o rely on people on the ground. afghans on the ground even to tell us what s going on. t we re going to have to listen to lots and lots of phone conversations. go up a lot of blind alleys before we look, we got osama bin laden after missing him a number of times. it took us a long, long time to get him. l we finally got him. i think if if the if the government has decided we re going to make these people pay, we ll find the people who who gave the order and make them pay. in the meantime, however, we ve got a bigger problem trying to find pockets of of of these people and destroy them ts before they cells of them before they do something else. - it s it s a very difficult
go up a lot of blind alleys before we look, we got osama bin laden after missing him a number of times. it took us a long, long time to get him. we finally got him. i think if if the if the government has decided we re going to make these people pay, we ll find the people who who gave the order and make them pay. in the meantime, however, we ve got a bigger problem trying to find pockets of of of these people and destroy them before they cells of them before they do something else. it s it s a very difficult group to track down. they grew as big as they did principally as a function of using castoffs from the taliban. they were taliban soldiers who left, got fed up with the taliban and then joined isis-k. they will, at some juncture, have to assemble in various places and if we find them, we can target them. but the end of the day, it s the leadership we want to get and