former military attache in syria. let s deal with what s in play right now. the most important thing, rick, to give some sense of is the movement of the violence right now. what are we seeing? well, it s rolling towards baghdad. if you look at the map and you see the cities that have fallen to isis already, they come down the two major attack axes to baghdad. it s moving like a snowball and as they go they gain strength. we thought as they went closer they would string themselves out and would become a target. the local militias have joined with them, the sunnis who feel oppressed under the maliki regime have joined them. they are collecting a lot of u.s. military assets that we have given to the iraqis and have been fleeing. the good news is that they are being back filled as they move along by kurds who isis doesn t want to fight the kurds. the kurds believe these are some of their lands and they are