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Its a failure. if you fast forward to 2008 when obamas, after hes elected before he became president, michael hayden, cia director, retired four star general had taken the position that you cant solve these problems from the air alone. you have to change conditions on the ground. now, of course, obama detests war and wants to rightly avoid some massive ground force campaign in the middle east or anywhere but the result has been, i believe, that the united states comes off as kind of this humble ...

Action, including some kind of a ground force. not an iraq style invasion, but some kind of a ground force to push them back from territory. and i was stunned. i spoke to the director of the grand mosque of paris today who is furious with this, outraged with this. he said they are -- their acts are magnified because they hold territory. he admitted america is reluctant after iraq, afghanistan. he said the only thing that can happen is for territory to be held and taken away from them. they have ...

If you take their propaganda, religious fundamental at face goal, they would be remised to provoke that response. one reason isis managed to hang on to so much terrain is you look where they have been booted out in iraq and syria and lets take northern syria. most areas are kurdish villages. sunni and kurds not losing terrain is the sunni triable heartland of eastern syria. the same thing applies, by the way, in iraq. they were kicked out of the province. this is what i call the briar patch for ...

Does not want american troops on the ground there. >> she doesnt understand the threat to our homeland. shes not prepared to be commander in chief. and no one on the republican side is ready to be commander in chief if you dont understand that we need an american ground force increased in numbers in iraq, an american ground forces, part of a regional army, to go into syria tomorrow if we could, to destroy raqqah -- isil in syria before they hit us here. were going to fight them in their backyard...

Months, and they really didnt have an impact on the decision-making of the serbian leadership, only russian pressure caused them to withdraw finally. were going to need a capable ground force to combine with the airstrikes before they will be effective. ground forces can force the enemy to mass. that will provide targets to the airstrikes so that two-thirds of the planes dont go back to base with bombs still on board. and in terms of bombing infrastructure, you know, its pretty obvious to the fo...

From a containment strategy to a defeat strategy. weve been trying to contain the islamic state inside syria and iraq. its obviously not contained given the extraordinary terrorist attacks and brutal terrorist attacks of last friday. so the u.s. needs to articulate how can we and coalition defeat this group? >> but how do you do that when russia is already pretty much calling the shots? >> i dont think they are calling the shots. they are a consequential player. you do it by intensifying the air...

Martin dempsey, its good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> what can we achieve from isis? >> you can take on their logistics pipelines and the like. obviously, to really close this out is going to require a ground force of some type. but air power has been effective so far in stopping their spread and even helping indigenous ground forces push back on them. air power alone will not solve it. >> so we are going to have to rely on the ke-- we cant do it were you our allies in the region. >>...

Want that ground force to be a local or regional ground force. to raise that kind of ground force, you probably have to first address the syrian conflict. you have to first get rid of president assad who is the one that the moderate rebels want to fight against. and so again that leads you back to this question of ending the conflict in syria as a prerequisite for defeating isis. >> you get rid of assad and who takes care of that. i remember when getting rid of saddam seemed like a good idea. >>...

Explosions, a number of targets hit. mostly in the suburbs around raqqa but two key buildings in the middle, basically headquarters and jails for isis. a total of 30, 24 explosions, depending on who youre listening to and the coalition, too, evidence in the air over raqqa last night, hitting targets far from it and also close to it as well. so, a lot of air power being used and the french president francois hollande saying, more will come. you heard president obama justify strongly that air stri...

That accrues to that part. in the long term this could be a serious political issue. >> first of all, its going to be interesting to see how this affects voters front of mindness with respect to these issues which it hasnt been front of mind in either of the primaries. second of all, the strongest critiques are on things that are conceptional. when you get into the nitty gritty. lindsey graham is the only person saying send troops and even though fall short of what ground force would be needed t...