Jon Stewart

Anybody else?

Anyway, I love your book.

Let me ask you a question.

What are we doing?

Because it seems like we have a relatively incoherent strategy and we've had it for quite some time now.

And typically when you have strategies like that, you change it to make it coherent.

So we have this idea, we're gonna fight ISIL.

It's this incredibly evil group, more evil than anything we've ever seen.

We're incredibly scared of them, but we're only gonna fight them from the air.

and only in certain places at certain times.

Does that sound coherent?

So we have trips on the ground now.

Crazy.

So we have trips on the ground in Iraq, but apparently Syria, which is generally their safe haven, is a totally separate entity.

So what are we to make of the difference between the rhetoric that we hear and the reality?

Because the rhetoric is, we are in the fight of our lives.

This is an existential threat that we must confront.

but we're not going to involve the whole country.

It seems like they're trying to get the go ahead to do what they wanna do,

without making the commitment and getting the entire country involved in whatever this battle is.