say with so little direction or certainty about what they are doing and left the brave men and women here fighting to rid the area of isis, left them reeling with the decisions. this land movement beginning, it will be enormous and deeply symbolic in the parts of the americans soldiers that were not ready to bring the campaign to an end, and certainly not ever in these circumstances. >> i want to bring in cnn national security commentator, mike rogers, the former republican chairman of the house intelligence committee. among the most consequential decision a president makes are those involving the troops, and the president claimed the troops are going home and they are not, but they are staying in the middle east, and he called mark es perron toe instead of mark