told us he would, i at least find assurance in that. at the end of the day, you know, i deploy to iraq five years after president bush declared victory there. i deployed to afghanistan months after president obama stated we would pull out. so i understand the necessity to establish a goal, achieve it and then want to come home. and i'm not saying that president trump has quite done that i think he is declaring victory at his first opportunity but i can appreciate a president who says we won't stay there forever and follows through with it. brian: surge it worked. president obama lost the peace. then comes in isis. we have to fight our way back. in our secretary of defense jim mattis who knows something about fighting says this getting rid of the caliphate doesn't mean you blindly say we got rid of it and wonder why the caliphate comes back. his special envoy to the region bret |1 mc 0 gurk says if we have learned anything over the years you can't just defeat their physical space and then