attack to push daish out of that area and push route 47, which is the principal east/west running mode of communication between raqqah and that s an important development. it continues to indicate how with american air power, coalition advice, partners like the peshmerga and other elements within those four nationings are able to make real ground. it seems as if the peshmerga right now are your most re reliable. the kurds are your most reliable partners now. why are we not arming them directly? well, they are being armed. not directly by the u.s. well, they re being they have been armed. 14 nations have been providing support to them. one of the reasons we came to iraq, one of the reasons we committed ourselves, was to restore the territorial integrity of iraq and the sovereignty of the iraqi government over all of iraq. and so we may not be directly providing them assistance, the