and when we hear people offered up half baked ideas as if they are solutions, or trying to downplay the challenges involved in the situation, what i'd like to see people ask is specifically, precisely what exactly would you do and how would you fund it and how would you sustain it? and typically what you get is a bunch of mumbo jumbo. so these are hard challenges. they are ones that we are going to continue to pursue. the top line message that i want everybody to understand is we are going to continue to go after isil. we are going to continue to reach out to a moderate opposition. we reject russia's theory that