and will it happen, yes. but ultimately to have a lasting victory, i've been saying for some time that the lasting victory needs to involve civilized islam, arab boots on the ground. and they are going to have to be -- if you're going to take over cities like raqqah and cities like tikrit, the people actually doing the fighting and the new mayor of tikrit, the new garrison has to be sunni muslims who live there. until that happens they're going to see all other victories, but they'll see them as temporary if it's american soldiers, garrison and tikrit, another generation will slither forward and put bombs underneath our humvees. really we can help, we protect ourselves. but absolutely we need to help those who live there who have to be the fighters. >> in his state of the union address president obama said the fight against isis doesn't pose what he called an existential threat to the united states. you agree with him? >> well, they're not going to come here with armies. and terrorists actually commit terror because they are weak.