words matter. helen: you invite more wrath when you pull your punches. it's pretty clear that isis isn't giving the president any break for not calling them what they are so why does he still do it? i really have no idea. milton: i think it was your conversation with general keane that crystallized it for me. if you don't call the enemy what it is, they'll make a mockery of the leader they think you're not. sergeant joe: it is clear as a bell the president wants out of this region. he never wanted in in the first place. he's stubborn as hell. he wants to wash his hands out of the whole place. the bloodstains are hard to wipe off. if death doesn't scare you. maybe the debt will. a lot of you still writing that i felt i was the last guy still worried about the 18 trillion-dollar debt piled up. the happy days are here again, those deficits