troops right back there at greater cost to american lives and greater costs to what may happen, anything unforeseen. this is a situation where the president made the announcement. obviously, nobody knew about it. mattis resigned. what kind of decisions are being made when the defense secretary who is the main person in these kinds of policies doesn't know anything about it? this is again the president making snap decisions, not listening to those around him, not listening to what should happen. someone like mattis wasn't going to stand for it. it is unprecedented that a secretary of defense would resign like this. so the 200 is better than nothing, but, you know, we are trying now to get our allies, britain and france to substitute. they don't want to substitute. if we are not going to be there and do what we need to do with them as allies, they are not going to pull our chestnuts out