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Things that need to be done for several reasons. whats your interpretation? >> you know, that could be very well the case. i would look at the bigger picture. were sending a carrier group, well have so that potentially 80-plus additional aircraft in addition to what we have in air bases in the middle east, a strong aviation presence thats just been fortified with b-52s. if push comes to 1406 and we need to make -- shove and we need to make iran pay the price, i think we need the navy and the air...

Skepticism because it has happened so fast and hot on the heels of what happened in paris. clearly these targets may have been known for the united states for some time. they had jets over the skies of raqqah for so long now. for french air force to bomb may be too much of an opportunity to be entirely credible. this provides the french public and francois hollande the viceral reaction. we have no idea what effect this has, but it gives a clear message that frances military is so much more in th...

Targets from now, the french dropped 20 bombs tonight. the notion of summoning those targets overnight when there have been u.s. airplanes for a protected period of time and there are targets available at the moments notice, that in itself requires some examination but i think for the french public here who are looking to fran choice hollande for some sort of immediate intense military response, thats answered here. we dont quite know whats been hit and how militarily effective that has been and...

Now its i think we are seeing a consensus in the republican party for some more oh bust ground element in -- some more robust ground element. bill: what is hillary clinton going to say about that? >> this is what shell say. your brother broke iraq. iraq is in the state its in because jeb bush couldnt say whether he would or would not do over again knowing what he knows now. him giving a speech on this is an example of someone leaning into their biggest vulnerability. last week he said we shouldn...

When i say the concept is flawed what i mean by that is that isis headquarters all of its resources, its recruiting its training its logistics, its expansion in syria, there is no plan to deal with syria whatsoever andrea. you cannot defeat isis in syria without some kind of ground element and we do not have a ground element. so thats center stage is a flawed plan. isis is expanding as you know into the region. its expanding in yemen, afghanistan, in the sinai and also significantly in libya. no...

Committee earlier today on the administrations failing isis strategy. joining me to explain his comments further is the general. general, welcome to the program. >> good to be here andrea. >> good to see you as always. general, why do you say that we are losing this war? >> well you know the president designed this strategy nine months ago. and we all had some general reservations about it at the time. but when you get right into it when i say the concept is flawed what i mean by that is isis he...

Speak. some of the challenges associated with that is when those forces are out in the open desert, theyre clearly easy pickings. when theyre tucked in next to population centers, thats considerably more challenging and to facilitate that we would need some kind of ground element to distinguish the enemy forces from friendly forces and civilian -- to keep civilian casualties at a minimum. bill: so many, john mccain among them, saying we prevented a blood bath or do you think qaddafi was only goi...

Warfare warfare, these sorts of things. and we need to have a valid ground element, not necessarily what were doing here. >> in real time, we have none of this information from gates. we got none of this information from rumsfeld. now gates tells us it was a mistake to go into afghanistan and iraq after weve already gotten in there, telling us now. we have rumsfeld telling us now there were no nuclear weapons in iraq, no attempt to build them, no attempt to buy them. no, nada, nuclear weapons. t...

Country best serves by strong navy, technology, anti-penetration through cyber warfa warfare, these sorts of things. and we need to have a valid ground element, not necessarily what were doing here. >> in real time, we have none of this information from gates. we got none of this information from rumsfeld. now gates tells us it was a mistake to go into afghanistan and iraq after weve already gotten in there, telling us now. we have rumsfeld telling us now there were no nuclear weapons in iraq, n...

Of colonialism to stabilize and allowed their economies to grow. but what we have now really is a war against international terrorism that requires an enormous amount of maneuverability, and at the same time, we have the strategic objectives of the country, which are best served by strong navy technology, anti-penetration through cyber warfare, these sorts of things. and we need to have a valid ground element, but not necessarily what were doing here. >> in real time, weve got none of this infor...