to put us at political odds with both the russians and the turks. so, this is going to be not only a military problem, but it's going to be a huge political mountain that we're going to have to climb. we have tried to take a hands-off approach with the turks so far, but this will put us in direct confrontation because we're going to want to put american troops there to take raka, that's the big key there who takes raka. the turks want to do t the syrians want to do it and we would rather have our forces do it. >> gayle, you heard the colonel. what do you think? >> i think this is a policy discussion that's been going on since 2013, you know, at the latest. i think you have the foreign policy of unpredict ability from the trump administration meeting the reality of the complicated nature of the syrian war which has killed already the equivalent of oakland, california. left homeless and without their country, the equivalent of los angeles. so, you see the trump administration trying to figure out what is the way forward, every single policy option that,