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Youre suggesting from the sources youre talking to there has been a more significant, a more robust u.s. or western presence on the ground. boots on the ground and how hesitant we are to send boots on the ground. weve had a boots on the ground presence in syria. >> reporter: i think boots on the ground suggests a mass of soldiers and amass of capability. we dont have boots on the ground. we do have special forces capability sniper capability. we have been working inside syria and iraq at the mom...

Tremendous strides that were made there but the president still bleflts war there in the first place was the reason isis was able to proliferate in that area. he doesnt blame it pulling out of iraq, he blames president bush and the going in the first place. >> thats not fanning fuel. what happened with the surge was we began to get people in the country of iraq on our side and made tremendous gains. by pulling out precip usually and not having that infrastructure of trainers and intelligence som...

Brigade. an islamic militia group. more than a mile away is what is called the an ex. now known to be a cia facility. theres more security there. based in tripoli but moving around the country is a department of defense sight security team with special forces capability. lieutenant colonel andrew wood takes charge of the sst on february 12th, 2012. >> the spring of 2012, there was an uptick of terror attacks in libya. >> thats true. they seemed to be targeting more toward westerners. >> despite ...

More than a mile away is what is called the annex. now it is known to be a c.i.a. facility. more security there. based in tripoli but moving around the country is a department of defense site security team with special forces capability. lieutenant colonel andrew wood takes charge on spring of 2012. >> there was uptick of terror attacks in libya? >> that is true. >> bret: despite an average of two security incidents every three days, he and his team are slated to leave in libya by summers end. m...

I believe we need more in the way of tactical intelligence-gathering. we dont need 100,000 troops on the ground. where were positioned, for example, in afghanistan is wrong right now. we need more in the way of special forces capability. we need more in the way of drone strike capability. when we collect the intelligence, we should be prepared to act on it. its just a matter of rearranging some of our national security and military assets that we have in the region. but shoring up the relationsh...

Way of tactical intelligence-gathering. we dont need 100,000 troops on the ground. where were positioned, for example, in afghanistan is wrong right now. we need more in the way of special forces capability. we need more in the way of drone strike capability. when we collect the intelligence, we should be prepared to act on it. its just a matter of rearranging some of our national security and military assets that we have in the region. but shoring up the relationship yesterday. i dont see movem...

To be fixing the core. after ten years of fighting the war on terror, people are ready to bring our troops home from afghanistan, rick. this country has given its all. [ applause ] >> special forces capability but were going to have to do that in every corner of the world but we need to fix this th core and get serious about what the rest of the century holds on for this country. >> just because our which is sick doesnt mean that our values are sick. were going to stand up for those values to ma...

To be fixing the core. after ten years of fighting the war on terror, people are ready to bring our troops home from afghanistan, rick. this country has given its all. [ applause ] >> special forces capability but were going to have to do that in every corner of the world but we need to fix this th core and get serious about what the rest of the century holds on for this country. >> just because our which is sick doesnt mean that our values are sick. were going to stand up for those values to ma...

Foreign policy. i think the only one on stage with any hands on foreign policy experience having lived overseas four times. we are at a critical juncture. we dont have a foreign policy and we dont project the goodness of this country in terms of , democracy, open markets and human rights with a weak core. right now our core, our economy is broken. we dont shine that light today we are 25% of the worlds gdp. the world is a better place when the united states is strong. guiding anything we talk ab...

With any hands on foreign policy experience having lived overseas four times. we are at a critical juncture. we dont have a foreign policy and we dont project the goodness of this country in terms of , democracy, open markets and human rights with a weak core. right now our core, our economy is broken. we dont shine that light today we are 25% of the worlds gdp. the world is a better place when the united states is strong. guiding anything we talk about from a foreign policy standpoint needs to ...