you think the american public is ready right now for these kinds of casualties and costs if the u.s. were to deploy troops in that manner? >> you're never ready for casualties in the cost of war, but for the first time, a majority of americans want ground troops in iraq and seyri. and that's for a a number of reasons. one, it feels like the current strategy that the obama administration has been defending for months isn't working. and that's been sort of reassured by some of the members of his own cabinet who have contradicted this idea that isis is contained. when president obama said just now that doesn't mean that isis won't still be dangerous. they will still be dangerous. that doesn't jive with past explanations that isis is contained,i isis is not an extet shl threat. it's difficult to compel the american voters that taking back 40% of isis east's territory ovs