need to be prudent but do you agree with that assessment. fa was gur jez said he doesn t think they pose necessarily a threat right now. they could eventually. what threat is this group to the u.s. in your estimation? i don t see an immediate threat to the united states. what our concern is we have invested almost 4500 lives in this conflict. we ve invested trillions of dollars. so we will try to help stabilize a situation that, of course, i believe we shouldn t have been in in the first place and that was badly played because remember, the secretary of state then said colon powell, you know, you break it, we own it. i can recall some of the same individuals back then saying that mission accomplished. the former president and they would be waving the flag. we made certain missteps. because we didn t think it through. that s why i appreciate what president boem is doing now is thinking it through on a regional basis and all of the