the dean of the joseph koshle at the university of denver. good to see you. in your view, how significant is this strike, hitting three well-known operatives? well, first of all, i think our service does quite a job tracking these people. you know, coming a few days after that brazen effort by the al qaeda leadership to show that they re around, we, i think, demonstrated that we can hunt them down. i have seen a number of these strikes, and it is amazing how accurate and how well targeted they are. i mean, the idea that innocents are being killed, it s really not the case. they re going right after some real bad guys, and, you know, they ve done a very good job. so even if you re in your view lesser powerful figures were hit in this strike, does it still send a very strong mess e message, one of intimidation? does it make an impact on a grand scale anyway?