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Force, a u.s. ground force small, modest and also turks. why are they proposing this? because the other option we just spoke a -- leland: the turks are benevolent and are benevolent in this. lets put it that way. >> heiresses and serious occurred in the territory we are trying to take over and reclaim his arab territory. once we reclaim it, the arabs who lived there are not going to put up a steering currents controlling the territory. that is the problem. the other option is an issue because th...

>> he said he believes that thats absolutely a possibility and saying that he said would make sense at this point in time. he believes theres a lot of momentum going on in the fight against isis, not just in seyri but also in iraq. he believes u.s. ground force could have a huge effected on the momentum of the battle there. lets listen in to what he had to say. >> i think the place you may see somed a de ed additional initia syria. theres a possibility of additional forces on the ground, to augm...

Forces there and using the kurds to take down isis at raqqa. that will probably take some months to be able to do that. theyll put artillery in there and apache to enable that ground force to be more effective. i actually prefer that the turks plan to be frank about it. which is arab coalition on the ground. turk coalition on the ground. u.s. coalition small on the ground. take it down quickly more decisively. leave the arab coalition in place. pull out the turks and u.s. quickly. >> bill: that ...

Northern tier of africa, and possibly looks at some kind of ground force to cut off lines of communication and stop the flow of recruits and arms and means of war, and also gets in there with intelligence and communications so that our air power can be more effective. air power alone is not as effective when its mixed with ground troops. and then i think you also will see aid come nothing. remember, during the early days of the afghan -- the war in afghanistan we were dropping food supplies to c...

U.s. defense secretary jim mattis today confirms u.s. forces are involved in the operation providing key air and ground force. >> u.s. forces continue in the same world that they were added in east muscle and the coalition forces are in support of this operation and we will continue, as you know, with the accelerated after two two-story isis. >> control of muscle in 2014 and the battle has been going on for four months. it has not been easy. the iraqi army base in the east of the city, which the...

We are now in a situation in afghanistan where the war is not winnable, and to please come as a result of policy decisions made by the previous demonstration, and these troops under steele that, clearly. >> martha: we go back and in bigger numbers, what does a time frame look on this? >> for afghanistan, thats different. when it comes to isis, they will put options on the table to increase the resources that we are providing to help beat the iraqis be successful. that probably will not require a...

We are now in a situation in afghanistan where the war is not winnable, and to please come as a result of policy decisions made by the previous demonstration, and these troops under steele that, clearly. >> martha: we go back and in bigger numbers, what does a time frame look on this? >> for afghanistan, thats different. when it comes to isis, they will put options on the table to increase the resources that we are providing to help beat the iraqis be successful. that probably will not require a...

Ground force combatting isis is entirely beyond me. and the thought that we are going to also offend saudi arabia with this anti-muslim ban, you know, saudi arabia is one of our most important intelligence partners in counter-terrorism. the whole thing to my mind has informing to do with counter terrorism and everything to do with domestic politics and i think its incredibly counter-productive. >> rande loo, what do you think? get with the program or go, thats what sean spicer said in relation t...

U.s. troops. do you think hell be different than that? >> yeah, i think it will be because the problem we have is not so much with iraq. the attack has been stalled there, theyre trying to reignite it again and i think in time the iraqis assisted by the americans will succeed and so the issue is really ssyria, whih is the isis safe haven. so whats needed there, we dont have an effective ground force. i believe president trump will ask the military, give me some options to defeat isis in syria. t...

U.s. troops. do you think hell be different than that? >> yeah, i think it will be because the problem we have is not so much with iraq. the attack has been stalled there, theyre trying to reignite it again and i think in time the iraqis assisted by the americans will succeed and so the issue is really ssyria, whih is the isis safe haven. so whats needed there, we dont have an effective ground force. i believe president trump will ask the military, give me some options to defeat isis in syria. t...