ultimately deciding not to act. in ukraine, very measured, a couple hundred special forces -- well, in that case airborne going around the area of ukraine. they were not major steps, you know, it wasn't too combative. he was worried about making the situation worse. and i think you see that same ethos coming through here. it's a dangerous step. it's outside the wire. they do face risk. it's not combat troops, and he's still thinking about airstrikes. but it's continuing this pass of a very measured force, fitting under that umbrella of obama's, you know, as many of his advisers were describing it a couple weeks ago, don't do dumb stuff, right? they have real hesitation to apply force in places where they think they might make it worse. >> gloria, talk about, if you would, the politics here, president obama, one of his signature campaign pledges, getting troops out of iraq. as colonel francona just pointed out, he is, assuming this plan is announced, he's about to send troops back in. >> sort of pinky toe in the