as of early june of this year, continue. you re right about that. correct. this is the only place where we will have foreign fighters as you describe them specifically al qaeda who want to threaten the united states and we are going to be thousands of miles away. the so-called over the horizon approach, which clearly cannot replace having people on the ground. that is why the c.i.a. director burns, who president biden nominated and was approved by the senate, has said that if the taliban takes over, there will be significant risk to the united states. that is where we are now. bill: the missile launch that broke late yesterday on sunday out of pyongyang, what did you see about what was different or significant from it, general? well, it was a cruise missile lawn: they haven t really done that before. this goes about 1,000 miles. some of ours go considerably