>> well, absolutely. but the current administration, because during the campaign, if you remember, this was a bad war and we were going to end this war, we did not stay geopolitically engaged in this government as we did with germany, italy, japan and south kree that. and we pushed away. we had an ambassador, yes. but we treated them like france, as opposed to helping to shape their political class and shape their political system. and we did not do that. and we're paying a price for it. >> all right. pell, you know iraq, general. what's your take on the do? is the president true when he says i'll send them 300 guys to talk about intelligence? >> he's partially correct. here's what's happening. isis is a branch of al qaeda, actually, as you correctly identified them. is he much more brutal than they are. they're sunni based, but you