that today. is it a little risky because you have russians there? absolutely. that's why i think this diplomatic between the u.s. secretary of state and russians is so important. now that you've armed up the kurd, leverage up our special forces capabilities to make sure that isis isn't a factor and you start tightening the noose and you get our arab league partners fully engaged in a way that they want to be engaged and i think you've got at solution to the problem. >> robin, quickly, if you could. where are our arab league partners? why aren't they doing anything? >> well, they are very divide. some want assad out and others are willing to see some kind of transition, so it's getting the arabs to speak with one vote, whether it's the arab-israeli peace process ordeal with the crises in syria, iraq, and elsewhere. that's one of the big steps. militarily there's options whether it's attacking the ground and control for their air power, but then the big question is who is the alternative when it comes to that political proses? >> yeah, that's the difficult