mistake right i offer my sincer apology. as a combatant commander, i am fully responsible for the strik and this tragic outcome. now that the ministries is talking about launching over th horizon strikes, aren t those even more difficult to avoid tragic mistakes? they are. this was a real tragedy and i have no doubt that we were collecting intelligence on an isis k threat to the airport grade sometimes finding those threats, it s like looking for needle and a stack of needles, can tell you that for my own experience. it s one thing to be able to shoot at target, the hard part is finding it and fixing those targets. that takes human sources on the ground, and now that we don t have an embassy in country, we ve removed our intelligence footprints, it s going to be that much harder going forward. it s an otherwise pleasant sounding phrase, but when you look at it, it s putting us at greater risk and the homeland