london center for policy research. also with us, lathe al kouyy at flash point global partners. tony, we start with you. >> sure. >> does isis have the upper hand? >> they do. and i think it's a mixed bag we need, from the guys to brake their political will. we have not done that well. also, we have to top the offensive so the other side of this is ramadi. no good news there. keep in mind we've been training eight iraqi brigades for the past year, and now we're down to six or less and i think the problem is we have no daylight ahead of us. they don't know what they're going to do. i was talking to an iraqi official yesterday, one of the prime ministers, they don't know what they're going to do regarding the next line of defense. you've got to do something different. i think you have to take the