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Seeing and that is stra stetegi retaking. efforts to go after oil obstruction. that, i think is as discussing, would require a larger ground force and probably there the big question is whether the turks are prepared to go into that zone and go across the syrian border and occupy that, which we would assist from the air. but this really cant be american boots on the ground and the question is, are there going to be sufficient other ground forces that have the combat capabilities that are necessa...

Rotating them in is a good step but its only one step in a long, long climb back to u.s. ground force capability. we have the same american pattern over and over again. after something like the cold war, we cut too deeply. now we have gone from half a million troops at the heist our involvement in the cold war to fewer than 7,000 and that includes marines, navy, air force. so sending back these brigades on training missions, great idea. but that doesnt mean you have combat capability there. we d...

Given the major setbacks weve had. the ramadi fell. the pentagon training program failed in syriand at russian military intervention. trying to show that were doing something about a situation where were really not making much progress. >> would you seem to be giving it more of a benefit of a doubt than some others, lindsey graham was dismissing it out of hand. >> well i share the same frustration as senator graham shares. is that what is the material change thats going to askt outcome, which is...

Curtail a lot of the participation. >> congressman, dont go away. we have more to discuss. i want your take on what is going on inside of syria now with the u.s. beginning to deploy ground force, and at least 50 u.s. special operation forces in syria right now, and what is going on, on that front, and standby with the escalating u.s. military involvement, and plus on politics, the republicans mock the president about the upcoming debates, and we will have more on that as well. 40% of the streetl...

Get in trouble. >> you cant have it so tightly scripted that you dont give the tune for the viewers to hear them, possibly make a mistake or whatever is going to happen. >> or score points, distinguish themselves. alisyn takes an issue i start off on, she does a better job. thats how you separate the field. >> thank you for all of the background on the meeting. >> thanks. the white house is sending u.s. ground force into syria despite what officials say, could this evolve into a combat role? w...

The ground. the notion that the united states should be putting boots on the ground i think would be a profound mistake and i want to be very clear and very explicit about it. >> it would be a profound mistake. but that is what the obama administration announced very quietly today. american boots on the ground inside syria, which is unavoidably, something president obama has explicitly said would not happen. well, the white house went out of its way today, and this is stressed as well by a lot o...

Needs to do is get entangled over committed into what he called already a sququagmire. how do we pull that off? >> thats what the special operations community is all about. its about being strategic and crippling the enemy. going after individuals and taking out strongholds. thats definitely our area of expertise. this isnt going to be a large ground force. were going to take them out in particular ways. >> how? without divulging what you know. >> without getting into security, taking some of th...

Mission, general keane, you are familiar with the unit that was assisting in the raid. >> they are largely a ground force like seal team six. they are faced out of fort bragg. the selection process to get into this is very, very demanding and psychological evualtions as well. and they are clearly the best of the best we have like the other tier one forces and the pilots are also in that category. we have asked see much of them as a result of 14 years of war. and many of them have stayed with us ...

By jim miklaszewskis reporting. i talked to someone yesterday who say he flinches every time we talk about special forces operations, a, he doesnt think we should be talking about it at all and, b, it brings up that day in benghazi. it turns out that rescue mission was ten hours away. >> it goes to the decision. can you call it iraq war syndrome in this country politically. there was no appetite to have some sort of ground force. but the fact is you cannot on one hand try to either advocate for ...

If you dont have ground forces to destroy isil you will never destroy isil. bill: you said 2,500 troops in iraq. >> i would go to 10,000. you are not going to destroy isil in $syria without a ground force. i would get all the turk together and go on the ground and destroy isil. letting the russians take is i will down, this obama light policy is not going to work. i would have a ground for to go into syria. mostly people from the region, but we would be part of it. if we dont destroy isil bill, ...