syria. get bogged down as you heard him say in a quagmire but is russia putting his troops in harm s way? most of the fighting on the ground conducted by assad s groups? they re sending their bloodshed and just reporting the air power. yeah, it s a real alliance with iran. because putin is putting in air power. he will use special operations forces, possibly some paratroopers for special missions but just as you said, the bleeding is done by the iranians putting thousands of troops in by the remnants of assad s army, buying in. putin is too smart to get bogged down. the obama administration is in wishful thinking. the british defense men said their analysis of what russia has been doing over the last four days, one target out of 20 isis, the rest of the missions flown against civilians and relative moderate and the insurgents we back. quickly as i m running out of time, colonel, what will the
government. former secretary of defense leon panetta said the same thing. there aren t really two sides to this story. i mean alan colmes, i think, would have to admit that the foreign policy is a mess. you can make an argument and colonel peters has made that argument, that the generals in the pentagon, the people who run the military services in this country are culpable. because they know the obama administration s policies are weakening the nation, yet, they have not said anything, haven t resigned, haven t read the, put up the red flags for the public, so you can milwaukee an argument that generals are colluding with the president in the weakening of this country. i think you have generals, bill, who have to walk a very fine line. let me try to define. this you have generals who recognize they have to protect the troops, protect the planning so that no matter what we have the military capability that s available to the civilian
towards trying to redefine our strategy and, bill, let s be very clear on this. the military has to do things to be effective in defending the country. what has happened is is the president and his policies have prevented the military from doing their job. you listed out pretty much ever single issue where we are failing. it is not a failure because of military capability, lack of strategic understanding or tactics. it is airline because of the politicization of the intelligence process as well as the operations process i think we are to the point where you will see generals getting to the point they recognize they cannot be of effective service anymore and you will see them walk or you may see them going to congress. you may recall lt. colonel mike flynn you have had had him on the program several times. is a friend of mine mike went to congress and laid out what was going on with isis. that was one of the direct things that led him to be kicked out of dia. petraeus did the same thi
government. former secretary of defense leon panetta said the same thing. there aren t really two sides to this story. i mean alan colmes, i think, would have to admit that the foreign policy is a mess. you can make an argument and colonel peters has made that argument, that the generals in the pentagon, the people who run the military services in this country are culpable. because they know the obama administration s policies are weakening the nation, yet, they have not said anything, haven t resigned, haven t read the, put up the red flags for the public, so you can milwaukee an argument that generals are colluding with the president in the weakening of this country. i think you have generals, bill, who have to walk a very fine line. let me try to define. this you have generals who recognize they have to protect the troops, protect the planning so that no matter what we have the
even though putin told the world in syria to attack ice sits. bombing moderate syrian rebels funded by the regime and ci. a. supports those rbles. wouldn t be paying for them if didn t. putin is really attacking american interests, is not? of course the president and secretary of state john kerry have no cogent response to the russian action. add to this the taliban capturing a major city in afghanistan. iraq still being dominated by isis and middle people in the novato and africa trying to get out of the terror ridden countries and europe. all of this is happening because president obama has not used american power effectively to blunt aggression and terrorism. all over the world, america is in retreat. and that s the memo. now for reaction. will the american military begin to publicly oppose president obama? joining us from washington lt. colonel tony shaffer. will they? i think you are going to see a very clear move