within three years, isis was able to fester and form in iraq and syria. so in 2014 when isis attacked iraq and took over a third of iraq's territory and the city of mosul, over a million people, five iraqi divisions were defeated and the security forces were melty. people thought is superior would take bag dat and the iraq security forcele would be infective and the government could fall. a different path was chosen with a small u.s. footprint of soldiers, which was very honored to lead and a different pathway. instead of evacuating the embassy, we fought isis. i wonder as we look at the current situation in fafg it had been thought through by the administration that bout the backbone of u.s. forces, how long did we think the