problems in any muslim country. we have a hard enough time doing it here. joining us now from washington lt. colonel ralph peters author of the book "valley of the shadow." why do you think the president is even bringing this up in he has pretty much run away from it. now he crosses the platomic and then he holds a press briefing. why is he doing it? >> because he can't run far enough. he went to the pentagon for two reasons. one he knows this is serious now. two, that was a way of showing that he is serious as opposed to doing anything serious. now, he is right about one thing. there are underlying problems which, as you pointed out, we can't fix the underlying problems are the collapse of the civilization. we can't do anything about that what we can do is go after our enemies. problem, bill, he is getting the high level briefings above top secret, every day. he knows how serious islamic state is he knows how deep the caliphate's roots are going. he knows how many