offensive to help a campaign in a presidential election. i don't ascribe that to anybody. i have major disagreements with president obama, but i also don't think he would do an offensive just simply to help in a presidential race. and i don't frankly see how this does help hillary clinton. i don't see how it helps donald trump either. this is part of what needs to happen to liberate mosul, and so i don't put a lot of stock in it. i highly doud mosul will be liberated within two week was, anyway. >> it's going to be a while and now that these isis terrorists thoir own counteroffensive against kirkuk, an oil-rich area. a lot of iraq's oil is in kirkuk, i remember when i was there, i was in mosul. if the isis forces could take kirkuk that would be an enormous loss for the iraqi government. i don't know if that's realistic, but they launched and assault there. how worried about you about that? >> i'm worried in that obviously loss of life perceived instability, things along that line. i'm really not worried about the