with him. do you think that he might kind of take that hint and step aside? >> well, he has dictatorial instincts but in addition, he's a terrible commander in chief as we saw in mosul. i don't think he's going to take the hint and step aside. the question is, if his support is in the shia religious community in the shia population generally and to some degree even in iran are willing to go for a unified iraq. there can be no unified iraq with the sort of policies he has followed for the last several years. everybody wants a unified iraq. so i think there's got to be a change of one sort or another either in him or the government. >> doug, we heard president obama today. he said the u.s. will be deploying 300 advisors. that's something when he's talking about advisors that are prepared to take targeted action, but they're not in combat. it sort of begs the question how would they not be in combat if