strategically right. it would give the opportunity if we depend on the militias to fight isis. we re feeding to them a big chunk the administration is making two fundamental mistakes here. one of them is the idea that if you re being really adrian headedhead hard headed about this if they re fighting out we re all winners. let it go on forever. balance. balance of power and it contains itself. what we learned of the war in the 1980s is these countries come out more vicious, more capable but the larger problem with what the administration is doing is that it s pretending that this is somehow a problem that pertains to iraq and iraq alone not to us. the reason we need to confront isis isn t to stand up to government in baghdad. we need to confront isis because it is attracting 22 25,000 foreign fighters including