Urds and arabs have been fighting for four years and we have been assisting them. their number is 60,000 strong, so they are the main fighting force. maria: i see. secondly, yes, 400. it s a low number. but what do we need our forces to do? we need our forces to coordinate artillery support and air power east of the euphrates river valley i ll leave it to the military folks to determine if that s enough to do that. now the state department is doing a very smart thing. not only are they asking the british and the french to stay, because they re already there on the ground with their special forces, they re going to the countries in europe that isis has attacked. what am i talking about? norway, belgium, germany. get them to ante up to protect their people in the future because they already have a stake in the game, isis has killed their citizens and let s get them to put in play here. maria: so many important points you make general thank you so much for being here this morning i want