europeans as well as the drone tragedy. let s focus on that for a moment because we ve been told, you know, by the president, by the secretary of state we can do this from over the horizon. but the fact is that that was an example of how you really do need boots on the ground, especially going into an urban area. well, you re quite right. we got to put this in context, though. remember, we just had a few days earlier a deliberate terrorist attack on a civilian crowd that not only killed 15 americans who were trying to evacuate tens of thousands of afghan, but it killed over 200 afghans. it was a deliberate measure. the context was we thought we had intel of a car bomb, perhaps 500 kilograms of explosives that would again target afghan civilians and u.s. military. they followed it for eight