to assess the scope of the damage that they took with that initial attack. How long to that point, how long did it take for them to actually realize and come to an understanding of how big that attack was and to begin to respond to it? How off guard were they actually caught? I mean, if you look at the fact that so much carnage was possible, that Hamas was able to engage in so much death and destruction before they met resistance from IDF forces and IDF forces swung into action, tells you how off guard they were. I mean, and there are reasons for this. Look, you know, first of all, intelligence agencies, security agencies can't be on like a 24-7, 365 state of red alert for a long period of time. There's exhaustion sets in. So there's that natural element that we need to factor in. And it's not something that there is any good solution for. You can mitigate by, you know, rotating people out and, you know, have a duty clock and whatnot. But at some point, the other side is looking for (10/99)
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