can t monitor, much less control. that s one of the things we have to realize, that we re not omnipotent. no matter how good our special forces are, no matter how good our technology is no matter how brave our service members, no matter how much we sacrifice, 100,000 americans or 10,000 americans are not going to be able to handle the transformation involving tens and hundreds of millions of muslims as they go through the throes of modernization and compete geostrategically in this region. the wisest u.s. policy is to shape it to work it just as the administration s trying t of the center of it don t put u.s. ground troops in there, work it with unmanned aerial vehicles and technology protect our friends like jordan and israel shape the conflict from the outside, try to limit it try to cut off the flow of reinforcements cut off the money to it but don t get dragged into it because there s nothing that would reinforce isil more than the opportunity to fight on the ground against