smiling? you sure can. yes. this is serious. i don t know why i need to gin up a smile. don t gin it up. no need to be perky. please don t smile here. this is about isis. no smiling. sorry. so remember back in the days of the obama administration when he would put sometimes the president would put time limits on military engagements. he said when we re getting back into afghanistan, he would talk about when we re getting out. and a lot of his republican critics went crazy and said you don t telegraph to the enemy what your plan is for getting out. you telegraph to the enemy that you re there to win. whether or not that s your actual long-term plan, you don t signal that. so what we have in syria right now is you have the commander on the ground trying to signal to isis, no, no, no you re not coming back. we re not going to let that happen again. and then being overruled by the commander in chief saying we re getting out now. so, the people who are there