a whole, by his predecessors, by congress and so on, mistakes his role that -- you know, the world did not begin when he was inaugurated. >> right. his war. >> right, exactly. >> he doesn't want them, but now they're his. >> and besides, there's a tremendous inconsistency. on the campaign trail, he was thundering about how he was going to decimate isis, slam isis. was it a war he didn't want? no. so to say it's not me, i'm not part of it, is -- it doesn't wash. >> one of the little bits of news -- newslettes, i think you can call it, from this trip is that he told reporters he's not in a rush to find and name a permanent new defense secretary. i'm guessing if i'm one of those troops who feels reassured in a war zone, that might take me