assad. so this at least puts something more on the positive side of the equation gives them another reason to join up. you know if you are fighting on behalf of u.s. and coalition, you will have their firepower to call on. but you're still not going to have a huge surge, i think, of forces coming to join. one of the other reasons they needed to announce this now is other militant force, chug alift with al qaeda, they have said they're going to target the u.s.-backed sources. that's got to be in the psychological operations realm a factor aimed at robs thor u.s.-trained forces of their steam. so this -- this kind of -- it sends a message to isis to al nasr and the regime of aassad that these forces are not to be