we have spent trillions of dollars defending and trying to train soldiers in that region from that region yet they walk away from the artillery, the equipment. >> if we were dead here that i respect, i got great respect for, but any time anybody comes on here and training iraqi troops is a part of the equation on how we win this war, i completely turn off. that's what we have been trying to do since 2003. it's aco las sal failure. it's not going to work. >> it's the center pen of the current strategy. >> it is a horrific strategy. it will never work. >> it's what makes josh did his job well. what makes it frustrating. it's indeed you want to highlight an area we failed that we recovered t. question comes, shouldn't we prevent those failures from happening. that's a fair question to come from the speaker. >> this president ran mike barnacle as a game changer. he thought big.