it looks more like a stalemate. independent caucuses with the democrats, many articles, saying that dozens of intelligence annual it ses say it was all made up. right, and that under investigation, and we re not getting a response out of the administration about those accusations, but what we do know is no matter how much they re doctors the data and analysis to try to make it look like we ve had some progress on the ground, what we are hearing today from the pentagon and other hearings dated back to june is the recruitment effort to build a ground force in iraq and syria to be coupled with the air campaign isn t working. the recruiting, the vetting, training and retaining is abysmal. the rebels in iraq, they saided 24,000 trained by this fall, and they only have somewhere in the ballpark of 5 or 6,000. they can t build the force we need to go after isis in rack