the horizon nature of the attack. you describe it as an drone strike. is this the sort of thing that could have been done with no u.s. troops inside afghanistan or is this the sort of drone strike for which it mattered there was u.s. troops on the ground? so, this was part of that across the horizon pension you mentioned or over the horizon pension. it s basically what it will look like is the u.s. will have a number of air assets largely unmanned. so drones that will be parked in a couple of neighboring areas. when they have there was a u.s. military presence in the country now. about 5400 troops at kabul airport. they re not really gathering intelligence in the same way that the u.s. or the u.s. even 2500 troops in there only a month or two before the draw down was completed. the troops were at kabul airport they were focussed on one mission and that s the