advisers. >> you know, it is a key area. and part of the reason the president said that he was going to conduct air strikes against isis in iraq was to keep americans in erbil safe phil. i mean this area was considered the safest area for americans in iraq. i mean i've been there. there are things like drag racing. it's very american in a lot of ways. i mean what do you make phil of the fact that isis successfully targeted americans, directly really for the first time here? >> look, what we've been talking about in the past few weeks are military operations in places like the oil refinery the tikrit operation and ramadi operation. those are military operations where isis is trying to hold territory to set up this caliphate, this sort of religious governance. this is fundamentally different as a counterterrorism analyst. this is a political act, designed to tell the americans, look you got engaged in our backyard you left years ago, you're now conducting air operations. if you're going to come into our backyard we're going to make you hurt. my takeaway from this erin isn't just that isis can reach a
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