action intended to limit the risk of escalation. and minimize casualties were still waiting for what s called a battle damage assessment. so to find out if there were those suspected, or perhaps launching this attack or affiliated with the attack killed in the us response that information we re still looking for at this point , but we ve seen attacks on us forces, often in the form of rockets. perhaps a little less often in the form of drone, but this is one of the more dangerous, deadly tragic in terms of the results of the attack on u. s positions in syria. alison how many troops does the us have in syria? the us has about 900 troops in syria as part of the campaign to defeat isis in far north east syria. they work with kurdish partners as part of that campaign, and they come under attack, perhaps more often than we would think. in fact, earlier today, general eric carrillo, the commander of us central command, said since the beginning of 2021 so us forces
the first thing you check in the morning, and then before you go to bed, what do you what are you looking for? what do you see first thing in the morning? i think at this point as well full transparency, it s a habit. it s not something i m particularly looking for. i think i m looking for something new every single day. i m looking for something exciting. i m looking for something i ve never seen before. and you know, i don t think our brains are particularly programmed to wake up and watch, you know, happy public video. and then, like you said, a video on anorexia and then maybe a video on suicide. i don t think our brains are programmed to intake that information as quickly as we do and take it on a daily basis. um but i think our brains have been programs, too. require that natural dopamine hit every single day. i it doesn t even feel like uh, i thought or choices just there, and that s something that it s obviously my job. so it s also a little bit, you know, back and forth. it s
still got game and so what? we re trying to what we should be figuring out is ways in which we can teach ourselves to discern that not have the visceral reaction. but you. you can t believe that that that the computers get to adapt all the time, and that we re just sort of stuck here, not being able to respond to it, so there s going to be ways in which we re going to also be able to learn. and eventually we ll see where it ends up. you seem skeptical for humankind, but i still have hope we have game. i think it s asking a lot of human beings. yes we can. we can you know we could talk about the ways in which you can spot the these images are fake. but the point is we are now having to. we re now in the stage where we re going to have to treat every single image we see online suspicious. that is a lot of work. there are things that i think companies could be doing. like the social media companies , for example, there are tools that they could choose to use to flag it in advance to peopl
when we study security systems are safety systems that you want to avoid the single point of failure, right? if you got one pilot, you ve got one single point of failure. and so it s just the most ridiculous thing to how much does it cost to have a second copilot on it to make any movement to not have a redundancy on the one thing thinking about it? it s hard to imagine that some of these planes are you know, some of them as we, as we ve been reporting can be flown by themselves, but it is it is. it s the most absurd, um, action to take because the it s an on off switch if the plane doesn t fly very unlikely. people survive it. or that you would have the luck of having a passenger who has a pilot s license. so this but i, but the bigger issue is the system. the system is telling us something from these near misses, and it s good that we are now starting to pay attention. these are not like oh, thank goodness that didn t happen. this is the system is under stress.
another term for a suicide drone attack the us position near hasakah series and it s far northeast syria in that drone attack. as you pointed out, one u. s contractor was killed, according to the pentagon, five u. s. service members and another contractor were also wounded in that attack in terms of how they re doing at this point, the pentagon says two of those service members were treated on site. well three and the u. s contractor had to be evacuated the medical facilities in iraq for treatment, so those injuries it s possible, maybe substantial. at this point. the pentagon says the drone is of iranian origin, which which suggests it would likely be an iranian proxy or an iranian backed shia militia in the region, which carried out this sort of attack and we ve seen that in the past. in response to the attack, the u. s carried out what it called a precision strike against iran s islamic revolutionary guard corps, or groups affiliated with the irgc in a short statement from defense s