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Homeland. youll remember president obama when he gave his foreign policy speech at west point a couple weeks ago, he said the u.s. will not use military action unless u.s. interests are directly threatened. you know, u.s. officials are getting very close to saying or perhaps they are already there that u.s. interests are directly threatened by isis, and that is their motivation here for military action. not invasion, not an occupation. advisers for positions. military action. >> i want to center...

Training grounds, areas that they could target? >> well, you clearly have whats called a collateral damage problem, when youre going after targets where military and civilian targets are interwoven, which we would see in places like tikrit and mosul, yes, there are isolated targets along those lines of communications, realize, isis has displayed itself as a conventional force as a result of that, you have to have mostockpiles. you have to go after targets that wont have a collateral damage estim...

Particularly cities they have taken over, theyre very enmeshed with the civilian population. so striking targets in those cities, in mosul, in tal afar, a city they took over today, that would be difficult. are there clear training grounds, areas that they could target? >> well, you clearly have whats called a collateral damage problem when youre going after targets where military and civilian targets are interwoven which we would see in places like badge ji and tikrit and mosul. yes, there are ...