incredibly tricky. no matter how well trained you are, there is also the issue which we ve been talking about this morning, some of these alliances shifting. and often without warning. what i just described, that s a description of the shifting alliances. it s an agreement between the kurds and the assad government that can change any time and at one point when we were on the ground in a particular area we were, it might change. and then here s another issue. the kurds really do have pretty good control of the area they have. but just further on is isis defact d defacto capital. we asked if there will be a push on that city. the trouble they have is that place is majority sunni arab. if we move in there, even if we take that city, will the local community welcome us? probably not. will they turn against us? quite likely. so that again is the issue. if the plan is to hept kurds push their front line, they re