the american personnel in the capital of the kurdish regional authority, and second, to deliver lou man therien assistance. these are very limgted objectives. and they're not being performed adequately, at least as of now. particularly the humanitarian assistance. there's still no evidence that there's people on the ground distributing it once it falls out of the sky. all it guarantees that women, children, elderly, ill people won't get it. but the real point is t doesn't fit into any kind of coherent plan, at least not anything the president has announced to deal with the threat that isis poses, first in syria and iraq, but almost certainly in short order thereafter in western europe or the united states. so the reaction so far is certainly better than nothing, but it's completely inadequate. >> as you say, it's certainly better than nothing, but we've been speaking to sources who tell us they haven't seen anything come to them. it has to be haphazardhaphazard. these people are in the mountains. >> we went through this in 1991 after the first persian gulf war when saddam hussein still in power