for however perverted it is a cause and are willing to die. the iraqi military as we saw last year didn't even have faith in their own leadership and their own government and didn't have much to fight for. as colonel reese pointed out, there is now a core in the military that is capable of taking the fight to isis. we saw that in tikrit. the challenge now is to grow that corps. it's not -- there's clearly not enough. even that corps that took tikrit needed american air support, iranian on the ground support, needed shiite militias to help them. that corps needs to be now made larger more and more training. there is no shortcut and the trouble is, of course that for every success like tikrit there is always the possibility that isis will swing in a different direction and make a grab for another piece of it territory and take away the momentum that the iraqi military is being built. it's not going to happen any time soon but that training