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Petraeus. thank you for being here with us. im curious, do you think the presidents strategy is tough enough? and if not. what would you strategy be? >> i have to give the administration credit. they are doubling down on their chosen strategy. they are not not backing away from it. and they are saying if we just do more of it and explain it louder that it will work. you know, i they that everyone agrees there has to be a ground component to the fight against isis. the disagreement is over who sh...

Going into iraq. there is no plan to destroy isil. theres a plan to hand this to the next president for a year. >> are you saying, senator the president is not telling us the truth? >> i am saying the president and t are leading the president obama not president bush. he withdrew all troops from iraq when the military said you need to leave 10,000 behind. three years ago john mccain and lindsay graham and many others said you have to train the free syrian army. those two mistakes led to isil. th...

Muslims are patriotic americans, those in the united states. i thought that was a very important point, given some of the rhetoric that were hearing from some of the presidential candidates, the divisive rhetoric. i also thought the president would intensify air struks, continue to deploy special forces into syria. i think all of that is good. it needs to be more intensely applied. we need a stronger coalition, not just a big coalition. a coalition that can actually arm syrian rebel groups, sunn...

Going into iraq. there is no plan to destroy isil. theres a plan to hand this to the next president for a year. >> are you saying, senator the president is not telling us the truth? >> i am saying the president and t are leading the president obama not president bush. he withdrew all troops from iraq when the military said you need to leave 10,000 behind. three years ago john mccain and lindsay graham and many others said you have to train the free syrian army. those two mistakes led to isil. th...

Yazidi refugees are real refugees. young muslim males are not real refugees. they wont fight for their own country and want an economic future anywhere. all the stuff, we would be bigots if we took christians and other minorities, they are the refugees. so it is so politicized at this point we cant do whats right. heather: colonel peters, lets talk a little more about the things that have been politicized, in terms of taking care of isis in syria and iraq and libya alone. at least two senators, ...

Administration strategy to fight isis. senator graham, what have you seen on the ground in your past few days and what are you specifically calling for now? >> okay. some progress i think ramadi, which is in anbar province can be taken back from isil. otherwise, mosul, which is a very large city in iraq is still in isil hands. theres no strategy regarding syria. we had a major industry in libya, a city in libya, the home of khadafy fall into isis hands. there no ground component to destroy isil ...

Yesterday. former cia director saying we need more. >> i agree with the tone. you agree that the tone is bad. the push back is were doing nothing. thats not bad either. joining us now is former democratic congressman harold ford jr. more intense attacks from the air against islamic military state assets, oil, gas facilities and leader is critical. no amount of air power on its own will get the job done. a substantial ground component is needed.

Chl. i could enkour tranlg president really to rally the world. their armies in a smart way, integrate our forces within a regional army. come up with a ground component to supplement the air campaign going on the ground and destroy the caliphate at its headquarters in raqqah. >> the art of political campaigning is to of course make what you want to do sound easy. sound like the obvious thing you want to do. >> will you at least be willing to send 10,000 u.s. troops over there? >> yes, i would...

Now and i dont think the french will have any butter luck than weve had. >> and yet, obviously, colonel franco francona, the concern about large forces or increase of u.s. forces on the ground which is to president obamas point that it makes the u.s. more the focus of isis attacks and perhaps alienates more people on the ground. >> well, that said and ill go along with who bob said. these attacks have not established the goal. the air campaign is anemic at best because we havent been able to str...

Terrorists in paris are dead and a manhunt is under way for the eighth. how do you fight those who are so willing to die? thats a good question. how does the fight against isis -- well, the question is, rick francona, how do you fight a war against someone who is so willing to die? unfortunately, since theyre willing to die, you have to allow them to do that. you conduct the war as you would any other war, knowing full well that your fighting enemy is committed. and you have to change your tacti...