people in the administration are saying, we have learned to do a lot with a little. and i keep going back to syria. i would say to them that 2,500, 3,500 troops in afghanistan couldn't do anything. i would remind them that 3,500 troops in syria, in the middle of assad's syria held the syrians, the russians, the iranians, held the turks, and held isis at bay. and when russian mercenaries came after them, they killed them all. so one of the lessons, and george packer, let me bring you in here on this one as well, one of the few lessons that we've learned militarily over the past 20 years is that we don't have to send 150,000 troops into a country to make a difference. if we want to push back on isis or if we want to provide a safe