>> i think that's a really good question. i think what the obama administration has been doing is they've been looking at a more sort of machiavellian approach, avoiding at all costs putting boots on the ground in mass numbers. so they've been going through the sf channels, 450 advisers went to iraq last summer. that will have contained a number of controllers, snipe, sf capability, not just in the kinetic roles but in the nonkinetic roles, human, human intelligence is a huge key piece that we just don't have in syria. and that's what the sf guys will be doing as well. support and influence and surveillance and reconnaissance. especially in places lycra mahdi where they're there to support and bring confidence to the sunni tribes so they align with iraqi security forces in the future to maintain that security. the point about the head of the snake, i think, is a valid one. and i think we really do have to take a holistic approach to this. i think what the administration has come to the conclusion of, despite all of the machiavellian and geopolitical trade that's been going on is you have to align yourself with ground forces directly. for example, the alliances with the peshmerga in northern iraq,
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