customs and border patrol people, you would have started i think with the national guard, because you wouldn t be taking active duty troops off their training missing unless it was absolutely necessary. the fact is those troops are down there. you have to look at this inside the pentagon and ask, can t the national guard there be re-missioned? it s in everybody s interest to get the active-duty troops home as soon as possible so they can maintain their readiness. too early to say if this is more posturing, but we ll certainly keep an eye on that. you wrote broughtly today that in your view donald trump doesn t grasp the role. in your op-ed, you said the u.s.