the fact is we there were. we're trying to get out of there now. we have two enemies of the united states fighting each other and killing each other. regard lgs of what you think about the president or his policy, the president did get a lot of ground cover for lack of a better word, phrase today, or the other day from david petraeus. he came out and endorsed what the president was saying. and a lot of republicans are conflicted on this issue because so many hawks on the hill want to go in and so many are more dovish because they are reading the writing on the wall, which is america is a war weary nation right now and does not want to get involved into another 30-year conflict. >> you are exactly right it's a much more bipartisan issue than we've seen before. people are divided. but not divided along clean party lines. most people seem to care about what the military perspective is. rye, you've been in the theater of war. how worried should america be