open ended. the u.s. mission there was now expanding to training 40,000 troops, which would take a number of years. and there would inevitably have been a peacekeeping operation, where that would keep us in there for another couple of years, at least. so i just wonder in we recognize back here that the military was trying to pull us into a mission that could have lasted at least a decade and that is legally questionable, and candidly, i think that those issues need to be kept in consideration by those legions of critics that are saying digging out of syria was the wrong thing to do. and the last thing i would say is, isis is around the world. it is not only in one small part of syria. we've got to fight isis not only in syria, but in the sinai and dozens of other places, where