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Threatened, too, by a radical islamic growth in their own country. and they also -- they know the threat of iran. and so what theyre gonna want to do is have u.s. leadership. the u.n. community knows that unless the u.s. leads this type of action is not gonna take place. and so quietly theyre going to be saying -- theyre going to be thankful for a u.s. leadership, even though, again, publicly, theyre going to have to be careful not to enflame people in their own countries. i think its going to b...

How does that change a conversation on the diplomatic front? >> it helps diplomacy quite a bit. and the reason is, is theres a difference between a threated of military action and a credible threat of military action. what were seeing from the trump administration is a very serious credible threat of military action. whether it be in syria or now here in afghanistan. so the diplomats now have the ability to sit across the table from their counter parts and say, look, weve got to solve this probl...

>> dana: all right. rick, in the past week or two, the united nations has actually been quite busy. there was an emergency meeting held yesterday with the vote regarding the syrian use of chemical weapons against its own people. over at the united nations now, what can you imagine is being discussed in the hallways there? >> well, look, i think that we have a lot of allies and friends at the u.n. who know that isis is a problem. and they know that isis has been running into these caves as other ...

Its not denying citizens on a daily basis freedom of the press, freedom to congregate. its all those issues that the chinese have and we need to be able to speak very clearly. when there is silence from the white house on these issues, then our opponents and our enemies get to fill that silence with some really bad information, some propaganda that will harm us for a very long time. so i think the senate democrats have the responsibility to stand up. theyre the ones who offered this political re...

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That we have. is that they just move over into pakistan, they come back into afghanistan. its a very porous border region. to ricks point, which is exactly correct, pakistan i think privately, they have a really good incentive in the sense that they ignored just years ago the fact that isis was even in their country. yet if you look at the number of attacks, from the shia, the mosque, all the way to some of the defense buildings that were attacked, theyve lost a lot of people to the pakistani ta...

You had a ground force commander, the guy actually on the ground, who could see the target, would have had the authority to drop that bomb on his own. fast forward 14, 15 years, it would have to go through a litany of lawyers and you would have to wake people up in tampa and essentially get a u.n. resolution to drop a bomb. what this tells me is general nicholson did have all the authority that we needed and we werent afraid to do what was necessary. and this sends a very large i think geo polit...

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