while a understand that impulse, at the same time, if they go rushing in two places like misoul and they want to substitute real readiness in the form of an iraqi armed forces that has strong sunni complement as well as shia, they may well end up trying to win the battle but lose the war. if you have iranian militias going into sunni towns, and after the battle is won, ethnically cleansing them, hauling people out and shooting them as we have allegations in places like diala, they will drive the sunni tribes further toward isil. that would be a terrible course of events, so i worry about in terms of defeating isil and i worry about the long-term situation in iraq, if iraq becomes a satellite of iran. i think a lot of what is happening turned the expectations on their head that many had before the iraq war when people thought that these are traditional enemies, they have iraqis and persians and they don't speak the same language, they are not part of the same ethnic group. nonetheless, we can see how dominant iran has become. and that is a grave concern. host: before we leave the isil que