Colonel Anthony Sheaffer News Today

Bomb raqqah or isis, it means killing huge number of innocent people it. means making america muchless safe and committing war crimes. what hes actually describing, if its actually targeting isis, then thats whats happen right now. thats whats happening with proxies on the ground in iraq and syria, and its actually having some effect. i dont think that most of the gop candidates would like to admit it. but the isis territory has been rolled back ever so slowly. but so far its working and thats s...

Military is part of it. but its not the most important piece. we have to figure out how we settle the piece, bring stability to the region after we defeat isis militarily. politicians should be focusing on the big picture, not the tactics. >> graham wood, and colonel anthony sheaffer, thank you very much for joining me tonight. really appreciate it. coming up, a hung jury in the trial of one of the officers in the freddie gray case in baltimore. first officer to go on trial. will there be a retr...

Thats something that i think the obama administration probably needs to get a bit more credit for. >> colonel sheaffer, your reaction to the carpet bombing idea? >> my problem with this comment and others made last night, lawrence, the fact that sun su once said tactics before strategy. you dont need politicians especially the president trying to make essentially call plays on the battlefield calls from the white house. it didnt work out well with lyndon baines johnson in vietnam. it will not wo...

On the battlefield calls from the white house. it didnt work out well with lyndon baines johnson in vietnam. it will not work out with this generation of politicians. but to be clear, the presidents job is to set conditions for success. its not to pick the tactics that the guys in the field have to do. thats one of the flaws here. everybody was like on a playground trying to basically outdo the other on whos going to be more macho in trying to go after isis. we got to do like an arab nato, weve ...

What does he need to know about how that might or might not work? >> good luck with that. >> they self-replicate, too. even there are so many it would be impossible to track them all, to stop them all, to find out who they are. >> colonel sheaffer, thats really interesting what his conception of the internet is. it sounds like he think there are on/off switches somewhere and theres one that has the word syria on it, you can just switch it, bang, theres no internet in syria or i dont know. i dont...