himself up on the throne of david. he understands that the key to the crown of judaea, to the throne of jerusalem, is rome. the romans want to control the entire mediterranean. and they need an ally. they need a client king in jerusalem. herod s has friends in rome. his classmates were the students who later on grew to caesar s. so he was really well versed in political intrigue, and his alliances helped to advance his position and his career. and the romans are extremely arrogant, and they think they can appoint anyone they like king of anywhere, not unlike certain other great powers today. so they decide that herod is going to be their person, and
talking to my sources in the pentagon, they re under orders to stay in syria indefinitely. that doesn t mean forever, obviously. but no time line. reason there s no time line, there s about 3,000 isis fighters hanging around in circa and iraq. in syria they re in the southeastern part of it. more work to be done. we don t want them going back in to the reclaimed territory that we took away from them. this administration, i don t believe, is going to make the mistake the obaba administration made in afghanistan by precipitously pulling out in 2011 regardless of the conditions on the ground. and we all know what we got for that, we got isis. grew to 30,000 strong. wound up killing thousands and how sands of people. this administration will not do that. they will stay there for a while. let that situation mature a little bit and make certain that isis does not reemerge. dana: one last question, what