michael hanlan senior fellow at the brookings institute. is this a major setback in the fight against isis? you know, i think it is significant. i think people were hope inging a few months ago that by this point in the mid spring we would see the iraqi forces liberating mosul, which is the biggest city in the north and west the biggest city they took that isil took last year. but we re nowhere near that. there was a modest success and now this major setback in ramadi. i hope secretary kerry is right to say it may only last a few days or weeks, but i m not sure i m as confident as he is about the liberation. and if we have to depend on the shia militia to do it or the iraqi government that may be sewing seeds for further trouble. i see this as a fairly significant and bad development. beyond ramadi will other key