the truth of the matter is, if you look around the world, we have the largest military force with the exception of china. all the european countries are really quite small. 150,000. the largest, frankly, is in turkey with about 600,000 troops. but in the end, general dempsey has said it over and over again you start a war at sea and in the air, and you complete the war on the ground. but again, we cannot repeat iraq and afghanistan because in both those settings, we have not been successful. and i think that we ve got to make sure the middle east countries are very engaged. congresswoman jackie speier, thank you so much for your time. as mentioned, the intense lockdown in brussels enters its third day. authorities are still hunting for one of the suspected. paris attackers, salah abdelslam, while also trying to prevent what they describe as an imminent threat of another coordinated attack. hundreds of troops and armored