. >> let's bring in lieutenant colonel tony schaffer. he is former army intelligence and ran blackops in afghanistan. for the political impplications we have john stanton, washington bureau chief. we don't leave any man or woman behind. that is the promise we made to every soldier. i think that is a very important promise we make as a nation. in this situation a lot of extra stuff along with that. a soldier who may have grown disillusioned to what it meant to be an american and a soldier. somebody who we had to trade five people for and negotiate with terrorists with the enemy for. is the price in this situation too high for your taste? >> let me hit that in three parts. first, absolutely. we need to bring our guys back no matter what. with that said the price is pretty high. we essentially traded five four star generals for one sergeant private depending on your perspective. the other thing is as much as i think has been criticized of the president. i agree reconciliation is the only way to end the war there. you don't give away your fi

colonel tony schaffer, senior fellow at the london center for policy research and from boston colonelunt fox news military analyst. so, if you were president of the united states, colonel, what would do you? >> i would let it burn. iraq is just about to fall completely. isis, if they look sideways at us, counter terror standpoint, we should not -- as we did not in syria, we should not get in the middle of this war. it's been going on for a thousand years. americans have done enough hundred special forces on the ground. i promise you president wrong. they are not baghdad they are going to the field to advise. this is a place we new should not go back to. >> the logical conclusion of letting it burn is that the it would be a stalemate because iran would come in, fight on the she a side. the isis terror army couldn't defeat them so you would have a de facto country that the south would be run by iran and the north would be run by the al qaedas with the kurds carving out their little piece. from al qaeda strong hold in the north these people base, these people organize, these people get s