cohesi cohesive. it's a big problem. the international community do not feel they have a partner to work with. there's a sequencing problem here. the russians and iranians would prefer to have the peace talks go forward first and the opposition chosen later. the opposition says if they're not at the seat -- don't have a seat at the table up front, whatever peace process gets initiated won't be sustainable and won't have the support of the fighting groups offen the ground. it's a tricky problem that remains unsolved as we head into these negotiations. >> and third of the vat, we heard ices is saying basically claiming, you know, that bagh d baghdadi ordered what happened in paris. how do you read that? we do see isis under pressure in various parts of iraq and syria on the ground. the kurds are not there far from raqqa. in fact, you've got a perhaps imminent assault on ram mahdi and we saw what happened in sinjar. do you think they're trying to