the hostage-taker may give up, he may release a hostage as we saw earlier today. he may tire. or he may become more agitated, but even if he does that s given the fbi basically they were on the ground for eight, nine hours a lot of time to figure out how to get into the building and get the hostages out safely. those are precision operations, right? the boom, the entry, and the protection of the hostages. and as we now know, the killing of the perpetrator. that s basically what happened behind closed doors, rightfully so. you have the continuing negotiation, the buying of a long period of time, and then the entry. what triggers it may either be there s only one or two. one is the hostage is exposed to vulnerability and they re going to come in, or they ve lost contact with the hostage-taker and want to get in relatively quickly. kayyam said the suspect did
instances because it s not an active shooter situation, so those are two different situations. in a hostage situation you re really trying to buy time. so we call it you re trying to extend the runway and just give more time. and that s saemgessentially wha happens. why are you buying time? the hostage may give up. the hostage taker may give up. he may release a hostage as we saw earlier today. he may tire, or he may become more agitated. even if he becomes more agitated that s giving the fbi basically they were on the ground for about 8 hours or 9 hours a lot of time to figure out how to get into the building and get the hostages out safely because those are precision operations, right? the boom, the entry, and the protection of the hostages and as we now know the killing of the perpetrator. so that s basically what happened behind closed doors rightfully so. you have the continuing negotiation, the buying of a long period of time and then
happened. so why are you buying time? the hostage may give up, the the hostage-taker may give up, he may release a hostage as we saw earlier today. he may tire. or he may become more agitated, but even if he does that s given the fbi eight, nine hours, a lot of time to figure out how to get into the building and get the hostages out safely. those are precision operations, right? the boom, the entry, and the protection of the hostages. and a as we now know, the killing of the perpetrator. that s basically what happened behind closed doors, rightfully so. you have the continuing negotiation, the buying of a long period of time, and then the entry. what triggers it may either be there s only one or two. one is the hostage is exposed to vulnerability ask they re going to come in, or they ve lost contact with the hostage-taker
more agitated. even if he becomes more agitated that s giving the fbi basically they were on the ground for about 8 hours or 9 hours a lot of time to figure out how to get into the building and get the hostages out safely because those are precision operations, right? the boom, the entry and the protection of the hostages and as we know now the killing of the perpetrator. so that s basically what happened behind closed doors, rightfully so. you have the continuing negotiation, the buying of a long period of time and then the entry. what triggers it may either be it s either the hostage has exposed vulnerability and they re going to come in, or they ve lost contact with the hostage taker and want to get in relatively quickly. we also heard they re going to be having an investigation, of course, a global investigation according to the fbi. what sorts of things are investigators going to be looking for? so it s if he was animated
leaders. is this a stealth extension of the u.s. war in afghanistan? i think it is just a recognition that we can get a balance. most of the fighting on the ground is being done by afghan police and military and they re bearing most of the casualties. i think america brings some very specific capabilities to do precision operations with afghan partners in many cases. but i think it goes back to confidence as well. afghans will do well if they believe they ve got the kind of strategic partnership that president obama offered them in 2009 when he explicitly said we ll be your strategic partner. you can t put a number on that. it s not a specific number of american planes or boots on the ground. it s the sense that we are an absolutely committed friend that will help them protect their sovereignty. but that sounds like a long commitment. and i m harkening back a number of years. i remember you said to me when we were in kabul, and this is a good five years ago, you made the comparison