if you were advising the president, what would you tell him? >> when we planned to go do these things we have four phases. deploy, shape the battlefield, fight. that's the part we all call war and stick around to create stability on the ground. stabilization operations. if you don't do phase four you get to do one two and three again. three, five, seven years in the future. unfortunately, i think the argument with the president now between the president and his military advisors is not about phase four. it's about allowing them to finish phase three and so even if they talked the president into staying a bit longer, it will be about simply the combat destruction of remnants and not phase four that's desperately needed. otherwise we turn the future over to iranians and russians,