watched what happens in ramadi, and everyone seems to admit mosul is going to be a tougher battle, is it kind of at some level to forget this idea of an iraqi army and have the realization it's either going to be a united states-led force or perhaps some kind of saudi-led force that's going to actually begin to try and take the fight to isis? >> short answer, heland, is too soon to tell. there's some promising signs from what we've seen around ramadi but there's also been some negative signs. remember, ramadi had at most 200,000 people. mosul has over 1 million. mosul is an ancient medieval city that isis has been digging into for over a year and a half now. some would say that mosul and raqqah and syria are just two nuts that are just too big to crack by the iraqi army. i think what the administration is saying now is the campaign season starts in april. let the iraqis get their act together. figure out how to do this campaign against mosul, see how they do, and then make the