but if that happens, what have we achieved? are they prepared to hold the territory and take over administratively where isis left off? that s the missing point here. i would ask what is the mission of our 50 special forces going in there? are they going to force a transition from assad s leadership or over throw him? these are fundamental questions to give our troops the guidance we need and make sure we have a real plan for defeating isis not just in the short term but long term, as well. you also need not only a strategy and plan, an exit strategy down the road as well and what i m hearing from you congressman, correct me if i m wrong, you re not hearing any of that. i m not. i m not hearing nearly enough. the fundamental thing that led to the rise of isis and al qaeda are political vacuums in the middle east. it s a political vacuum that
abdeslam, one of the terrorists on the run right now, does it look to you, spider, that he had some sort of exit plan, exit strategy in place or he just got lucky? no. i would suggest that he had a plan in place. i don t think any of these terrorists has serendipity design where they are going to go next. his role for the long term is how can i now live to fight another day? his objective is to continue to try to turn, recruit some more, return to syria, as necessary, or to stay in place and just hide out until he can get new marching orders. michael, the paris attacks, the huge propaganda win for isis that probably helped them in their recruitment. will they try to continue these attacks now if they assume they have momentum? of course. they are planning all the time. i think the real worry in europe and indeed in the united states is what else have they got up
obligation, before you commit any troops, your young men and women to battle, you have an obligation to say, what is the mission, what is the strategy, what are the costs, is it achievable? how much will it cost us in blood and treasure? and what s the long-term exit strategy? those things have to be answered before you commit men and women into battle. so i would say to the president, mr. president, this doesn t appear to be working as is. we can intensify it, by intensifying the bombing, but we need more people on the ground in the form of special forces to direct that. we need more we want to make sure that we have arab countries on the ground, not simply the western white world carrying out this battle. mr. president, this is what needs to be done. if you re looking for a military solution, this is what we think we need to have. nobody has been able to explain an exit strategy. well, that s part of the
a plan going forward. what they re acknowledging and reluctant to say is this means isad stays through a time being for some negotiating through an exit strategy. that would be volunteer. that creates remarkable problems and it fuels isis because you were allowing a member of the minority to run a sooni country and it feeds into isis power. an unbelievable amount of power on their hands. hillary clinton said in the debate saturday night we shouldn t try to just contain isis, we should try to defeat it. she said twice it cannot be an american fight. it is an american fight. it has to be an american fight and if people want to be serious and say we can t do anything about it, we don t have millions
nuclear agreement and the hard liners who are trying to sabotage it. so it s very fragile at best. it s damaging. it s a good get because it really hurts the face to face communication that is so essential for diplomacy to work. that s what has been john kerry s stock in trade is being able to sit across the table and really, you know, commit with meeting after meeting after meeting. the fact that he s standing with the russian foreign minister after all the tension with putin and with this foreign minister today shows the unifying effect of isis as you said. this could be in a horrific way a game changer if it does propel them the omake compromises to make compromises and come up with an exit strategy for assad or an end to the civil war down the road. but that would be, you know,