evening. joining me now, retired four-star general jack keane in, and a fox news military analyst. thank you for being here. tonight you're listening to this conversation and to jennifer griffin, your thoughts on the mother of all bombs being dropped in this particular area and the message that it sends? >> first of all, it has to do with the notion of targeting the enemy there. they have a safe avon their hop operating with on the border. the message that came out on 9/11, don't permit safe havens and sanctuaries like we did in afghanistan with al qaeda. this is been there for 18 months. they had a concentration of troops in this area left on the sand, and this bomb actually is well-suited for this target because it creates blasts overpressure but as a thermal aspect of a bomb that produces incendiary fuel. this is a nasty weapon in this incendiary fuel permeates those tunnels in the bunkers that are underneath the ground quite