serious challenges in the months ahead and before we run out of time i want to ask you about the decision and what it means for the struggle against radicalization and considering the kurds in northern syria they say that they feel betrayed by the u.s. they thought isis for the coalition they've been denied an independence referendum and now they've been left is sitting ducks it's turkey attacks. so i think that the kurds are pretty realistic when it comes to geopolitics because they have a lot of hard experience with being courted and abandoned by great powers including the united states in the past i think they probably weren't expecting it to come this quickly when the campaign was still ongoing and so i think that the major danger now is you've seen talk that the kurds may release three thousand or so isis prisoners that they're holding which would simply increase the dangers of