neighborhoods in ramadi using innocent civilians as human shields. joining me now republican presidential candidate and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. certainly good news coming out today. what lessons can we take from this? good news and the lessons we can take away is that the coalition that came together to defeat isis in ramadi did not include shiites which is very, very important. they were able to mobilize sunnis fromprovince, work with the iraqi military, and were able to do the job. that s something that i ve been calling for and i know other republican candidates have been calling for to work with the indigenous population there in anbar and take back that land so we don t create another sectarian war by using iranian or other shiite militia. taking background and keeping that ground are two totally different things. do you think they ll be able to do that? will we be able to go to fa lunl
gentleman and take bath that city? that s where more u.s. support is needed. that s the bottom line. this was done with a minimal amount of united states support. if we provided more boots on the ground, provided more air straiks, more cover, training, just more, then including people to work and be side by side and help coordinate these strikes. there s no question that the sunnis in anbar will fight and fight with americans if we have sufficient numbers on the ground to do that. we could be doing a lot more if we put a lot more effort into the fight. bring us up sort of the effort into the fight. this is certainly good news for america, good news for the pentagon and for the white house as well. the white house is going to come out and say, our strategy is clearly working. so is it? well, ramadi was a huge loss in the first place. just 60 miles from baghdad, it was a surprise that ramadi was taken. it s great to get ramadi back.
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but the plan was to take mosul. now no one is really even talking about that. i know there s folks who are suggesting that s the next step, but we were on the defense. now we ve at least recovered what we didn t think we d lose in the first place. that s good, but it s not strong enough. we need to drive isis out of iraq. we can do that by joining the sunnis as i mentioned before. also with working with the kurds up in the north. there s an opportunity now with some momentum as a result of a kurdish victory up north just a few weeks ago. now this victory here in ramadi. certainly a territorial win and also a psychological win which is very badly needed. i want to ask you about some politics while we have you here. donald trump lashing out now to folks in virginia who want to vote in the republican primary, they have to sign a statement, trump is slamming this move on