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The strategy. >> what do you want to have happen is this -- >> -- in iraq and syria. weve been averaging about 15 strike sorties a day. in comparison in desert storm we had over a thousand. and in iraqi freedom about 800. we have not unleashed american air power to be able to rain down on this caliphate. and they have declared themselves as a state. we need to treat them like a state. take out their vulnerability, command and control -- >> let me ask you about that congressman. let me ask you ab...

Nearly 20,000 shoulder-fired missiles that can take down commercial aircraft. the defense secretary said in recent day he had seen reports some had ended up in egypts sinai desert across from the gaz is strip. in terms of how much this option cost, the military intervention cost $1.1 billion. there were more than 7700 u.s. sorties, predator drone airstrikes, 145, u.s. strike sorties that dropped bombs, 397, and 70 u.s. aircraft participating in this operation that the administration didnt call a...

Great effort to protect the civilians since the nato took over the operation. so we would like to put great emphasis on this. >> opposition forces say nato is far more cautious in picking their targets and slower in their ability to respond quickly to events on the ground, something critics warned about when the handover to nato was first proposed. >> u.s. military will no longer be flying strike sorties against gadhafis armored columns and ground forces. i believe this would be a profound mista...

I actually think that the most fundamental problem is what to dress. reports are that the rebels are retreating. gadhafi has shown every sign of recalcitrance. hes not going to quit. hes going to stay the course. and therefore it begins with gadhafi and it ends with gadhafi. and ive just looked at the sortie numbers, way up there in terms of number of strike sorties, the number of sorties flown, there is an enormous amount of firepower, of tomahawk missiles being used. thats not going to do it. ...