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Crisis manage and crisis management theory of the case leads you to the things obama said about syria. assad must go or theres a red line. and he said were going to destroy isis. well that is -- that is the monumental task. i think there also is a difficulty here in how you apply the military -- whats the lesson from world war ii in vietnam, you cant do it just from the air. we have essentially an air only campaign. i think quite likely also obama will have a general dempsey problem who the chai...

He does not want to have another major ground force war. i think probably most people would agree with him but he stuck his toe in the water here when he said were going to destroy them. that is -- that is a giant task. so theres going to be the two sides of obama if we -- on many issues. >> lets talk about the other big story this week, that is that congress is tied in knots about what to do about the nsa bulk data collection. we asked you for questions for the panel and we got this on facebook...

>> only with great difficulty. he does not want to have another major ground force war. i think probably most people would agree with him but he stuck his toe in the water here when he said were going to destroy them. that is -- that is a giant task. so theres going to be the two sides of obama if we -- on many issues. >> lets talk about the other big story this week, that is that congress is tied in knots about what to do about the nsa bulk data collection. we asked you for questions for the pa...

Crisis manage and crisis management theory of the case leads you to the things obama said about syria. assad must go or theres a red line. and he said were going to destroy isis. well that is -- that is the monumental task. i think there also is a difficulty here in how you apply the military -- whats the lesson from world war ii in vietnam, you cant do it just from the air. we have essentially an air only campaign. i think quite likely also obama will have a general dempsey problem who the chai...

Im not talking about ground combat. im talking about better assistance and we also have to have a strategy to defeat isis in sooe and there is no ground force there. thatll go on for years. >> can iraq defeat isis without american troops? >> if you mean american ground troops i dont know the answer to that but i do think we should try and provide them the kind of assistance this they truly need that ive just described to you. more trainers and more advisors on the ground. we dont have any adviso...

He does not want to have another major ground force war. i think probably most people would agree with him but he stuck his toe in the water here when he said were going to destroy them. that is -- that is a giant task. so theres going to be the two sides of obama if we -- on many issues. >> lets talk about the other big story this week, that is that congress is tied in knots about what to do about the nsa bulk data collection. we asked you for questions for the panel and we got this on facebook...

Crisis manage and crisis management theory of the case leads you to the things obama said about syria. assad must go or theres a red line. and he said were going to destroy isis. well that is -- that is the monumental task. i think there also is a difficulty here in how you apply the military -- whats the lesson from world war ii in vietnam, you cant do it just from the air. we have essentially an air only campaign. i think quite likely also obama will have a general dempsey problem who the chai...

Them will work and why would it work when it hasnt worked in the past? >> the iraqi national army is not the iraqi national army we trained four years ago. its not a fighting force. its a withdrawal force. the peshmerga are aghting force. we need to look creatively as a ground force that can win this thing. i think we have to put more special operations forces in there toward the syrian bored and into syria to defeat them. i dont see the president right now, the administrations policy as a serio...

The question is whether our government the people running the war have any idea what theyre doing. >> the commander in chief doesnt have any idea what hes doing. but the american people know what needs to be done. the american people want to send ground forces to iraq right now to fight isis. there was a poll in march that said 36% of americans want to send ground force to iraq including 73% of republicans and 53% of democrats, a majority of democrats think we need ground forces. theres absolute...

Look at it from a geographical area. from a threat perspective in backed ramadi is important. mosul is isolated. kurds are on top of it. its isolated. >> ramadi quickly, is this another combination that the u.s.-led airstrikes are only effective if you got the really effective ground force thats giving you good intelligence is that a perfect example there. >> you can bomb or whack them all day. you got to have people on the ground to seize it and bring it back to people. >> thank you. we appreci...