somewhat delusional. and he dove down very deeply into the strategy to train not only the moderate rebels in syria but the rebel or the afghan i mean the iraqi military there in iraq and said that progress has not been seen. the strategy is just not working. and at one point, general dempsey, the chairman of the joint staff, acknowledged that efforts to recruit sunnis who are very suspicious of the shia-led diplomat are in baghdad and have not joined the fight is not going well either and the u.s. has stayed out of that effort. even dempsey admitted that if that doesn t work the u.s. is going to have to step in mora gress civil more aggressively and take charge of the commitment of