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Push. leon panetta seemed to suggest there needs to be an expanded role, as well, does that sound about right to you? >> no. it sounds overly optimistic to me. i think you need 100,000 troops and if theyre successful and make way for still more troops because dont forget you have to seize and hold the terrain. it always takes more resources to hold on than it does to take in the first place and as for time, i think youre talking about years. i think youre talking about maybe as much as a decade....

Also, unfortunately, disproportionate representation of some minorities. >> not at that -- >> its obvious we have a problem of integration of them not only in france but the rest of europe. most of the french muslims are arabs. in germany they are turks and in the uk they are coming from bangladesh or pakistan. it means as arabs they are sensitive to what is happen ng the middle east but they can look at the propaganda of the islamic emirate. it makes us the fault line of the problems. last poin...

Less integration in that society, or in those societies. what we are doing here is feeding directly into that. were doing exactly who isis would love for us to do. if you want to find out what hurts isis recruitment, treat muslim with the fair respect they deserve. dont call each of them a terrorist. >> thats a lot of what we see and hear in europe, as you point out, the talk of the home-grown terrorists who grow up here, but never feel this is their home. in many ways, some people saying that p...

Have been thoroughly vetted and pose no risk to the united states. >> can you give me an answer today on the 10,000 syrian refugees that the president wants to bring in? >> richard haas. >> the vetting process is good and can handle scale but thats not enough. we also need a policy in integration that wants people let in that they are integrated as fully as they can in that society and we need a monitoring policy. this gets into the area of nsa and the issue of private security verses collective...

Its a very good gesture. you want us to do that, we wont do it. lets take some more in. >> very interesting. tell me about the concern about intelligence failures that may have -- they didnt cause the terrorist attacks but they could have possibly not prevented them from having. >> say its not intelligence failure per se. its more intelligence coordination failure because we know that some of them were known by the belgium services, or ankara. some of them went through so we thought there one of...

French in quotes. the sense of being second class citizens and not integration. what they are learning with the raids is there is so much integration and the network is broader than they expected. how do you deal with that? >> it is a huge muslim population. the largest muslim population in europe. france has. 4 million muslim. a vast majority are not well integrated. the education minister in france is of arab muslim origin. there is that small minority of disenfranchised and the number that is...

Integration as a city. .mayor, we are working on this. we work with the association that teens because the thing we are sure of is we have to work more with teens. >> make sure people are assimilated into the culture. >> absolutely, and make sure that the teens that are going on the wrong side are detected and that someone work with them to get thunderstorm out of that anger. this is what we can do because we have people working in school, people working with teenagers. we have social services. ...

Specific solutions. >> youve seen the candidates up on the debate stages, youve been out on the trail talking to people. where do you think your party needs to go? >> well look, the left is all about redistribution and weakness abroad. i think my party needs to be, the republican party, the conservative movement needs to be is specific solutions and also taking on the threat of radical islamic terrorism. bre brett, weve got a community organizer at the time of war. he doesnt want to say the word...

Regarding the internet scene on terror. >> it is complicated. the war in syria right now. a war on the streets of paris with isis striking here and also a war on the internet. it is fought at all these levels. how much more power does the french government need? >> it is not a question of intensity of power. i think it is a question of appropriate powers and a good strategy to do so. what does it mean? you said that regarding the internet. the fight of radicalization. we have trouble of social i...

Descent. you have a muscular policy in mali, the sahara desert, with french forces actively fighting jihadist groups there. you add the poor integration of large cross-sections of the french-muslim communities, cultural tensions, its an explosive mix. >> it is so significant in that country. i want to ask you, quickly. we heard after the charlie hebdo attacks france invested heavily in counterterrorism. of course ten months doesnt just change everything right now but is this problem what were wi...