listen for just a minute a little bit more of what he had to say about all of this. >> it really is about deliberately first preserving options and then developing option options. if you're asking me will the iraqis at some point go on the offensive to recapture the part of iraq they've lost; i think that's a broad campaign-quality question probably not by themselves. doesn't mean we it would have provide kinetic support. i'm not suggesting this is the direction it's headed but at any military campaign you would want to develop multiple access to squeeze isis. you'd like to squeeze them from the south and west, you'd like to squeeze them from the north and you'd like that squeeze them from baghdad. that's a campaign that has to be developed. but the first step in developing that campaign is to determine whether we have a reliable iraqi parter in that is committed to growing their country into something that all iraqis will