a lot of these groups that were fighting in syria openly stated that they believe in absolute wayatal fakei and they were under the radar. they were fighting with hezbollah, a devoted proxy to the iranians. there is an absolute connection here. they were training in iran. they were being shipped back after they were dying through iran, not directly back to iraq. so they're not that independent. they are directly controlled. another line has been you know they're not as brutal. and we are fighting the same enemy. well, this makes a lot of sense, kind of. if you get past the whole narrative structure. these groups actually cast a narrative structure that said all syrian rebels were takfirin. they were muslims who wanted to accuse other muslims of apostasy and thus they could be killed. this is how they cast even our -- u.s.'s moderate so, kauld moderate allies. this was a larger narrative process they underwent. and now it's coming to full fold when we're watching iraq. and not that i'm saying it's not isis doing a lot of the fighting. but they have cast kind of this sunni enemy of theirs as