Host did you go for president obama . Caller yes, and i rue the day i did. He cares nothing for the American People. Stande plenty of money to in iraq, ukraine. It is just sad. It really is sad. Dont even know if i am going to vote in the next election. Right. Ll allan in brooklyn, new york. Democratic caller, what do you think . Caller i think he did a good job laying out the problem here is but he talked about the bravery of our soldiers. We also have to be brave enough to be candid about our role in possibly making the stability in that region worse and also making problems all across the world worse with Climate Change because we are 25 of the co2 output in the world but only 25 of the worlds population. Our military and intelligence authorities have found that the threat of Climate Change is a multiplier of conflict of instability in the world, and is one of the underlying reasons that the fanatics in this area soil formore fertile their kind of insanity because the soil in actuality is less stability in less the farming regions of the middle east and people are under more stress and more ready to listen to the fanatic voices. I dont necessarily expect the president to focus on that in a speech of this kind, but i think they have to be candid about the fact that while they are fighting the immediate threat we also have to be candid enough about our role in worsening the increase the that likelihood of this kind of fanaticism. From the Financial Times this morning, arabs wary of u. S. Efforts to confront Isis Turcotte i am concerned that the combination of western militarism and action on the ground by autocratic regimes is the same phenomenon that led to the growth of these radical extremists. Rami khouri. He says, isis will get pushed and it contained, but president obama talked more about this terrorist group being a terrorist organization. Isil is not islamic. Its victimsurity of have the vast majority of its victims have been muslim. Qaedasormerly al affiliate in iraq and has taken advantage of sectarian strife in to gaincivil war control of the iraq syrian border. It is not recognized by the government or the people it subjugates. It is a terrorist organization, pure and simple, and it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its wake. Host president obama on what basis is in his words, saying the United States will degrade and destroy it, laying out a fourpart strategy last night. Riley, democratic caller from michigan, what do you think . Caller do you think howard stern host we will move on. Good morning. Caller this is nothing new. The United States is going to lead and our allies. The question for me is that the all this allies have thesyria, iraq, iran syrians are going to react. Are going to feel violated and they are going to shoot down. We dont know. We dont know how they are going to react. Moderation in syria, i dont know what that moderation is. We are going into a long terrorism conflict. The worst thing is that there is we will see americans die every day, so the public says ok, the longer you bomb from there we do not mind, but we dont know if the bombardment will bring any solution. This is uncharted territory. It will go on for a very long time, i think. Host what do you mean uncharted territory yucca combat troops on the ground what do you mean uncharted territory . Combat troops on the ground . Army hee syrian is relying on them on the ground. I accept the coalition. I dont see how still with a new government, i dont think you see any sign of hope on that country. Welcomed congressional support. Some say they would like a vote, others say they believe the president has the authority. Would you like to see debate in the halls of congress . Caller one of the things that isnt being discussed is the fact that isis isnt even on the launch list, alqaeda is, but isis is not. Where is his authority to act . You know, i mean we can unfortunately the American Public is going to inignored in all of this. Host all right. How Speaker John Boehner put out this statement after president obamas speech last night, saying the president tonight recanted his earlier dismissal of isis capability. Host democratic caller, what do you think . Virginia, good morning to you. Youre on the air. Caller this is my first time speaking so im a little nervous. I really appreciate the earlier caller who mentioned that he had a hard time believing how difficult the isis problem was and what a grand scale it was to the United States. I believe they are a threat. I certainly do. But there is a question about arms makers being in heavy lobbying potions and how difficult the decision is. And who sold them to every tom, dick and harry in the middle east and escalates this problem . I dont think its another country besides ourselves. The other thing i would like to say as long as you have the vast unemployment in the middle east of 18 to 30yearold men, which is there right now, you have idle hands. And those idle hands are going to be involved with violence, because they dont see any other option for their lives. Whether we like it or not ear going to be there for a long haul doing certain things, like teaching the foundations of democracy, and helping those people become unemployed. Host all right, virginia. This coming from the chairman of the Intelligence Committee in the senate. Adam schiff had this tweet. He said the president said he welcomed congressional approval, would go further. Rng a vote on authorization is a constitutional prerequisite. President obama yesterday saying that. Well show you other comments from members of congress on their twitter page. But first more from the president last night where he talked about an outlined the threat that isis poses to iraq in the middle east. So isil poses a threat to the people in iraq and syria and the broader middle east, including american citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked these terrorists could pose a growing threat, including to the United States. Isil leaders have threatened america and our allies. Intelligence community believes that thousands of foreigners, including europeans and some americans, have joined them in syria and iraq. Trained and battle hardened, these fighters could try to return to their home countries and carry out deadly attacks. Host president obama outlining the threat posed by isis. Go to our web site, c spain dooring for details. Below that the story in the Washington Times, you have have the story, militants have knowledge, cash, thrent in numbers. The intelligence Officials Say the Islamic State group has grown from a ragtag band to a formidable battlefield tested military force inside the Washington Times this morning, the campaign so far by the numbers. The u. S. Already has boots on the ground and campaign of air strikes under way, as president obama out lines his decision to expand the military effort. The Diplomatic Security in baghdad, a little over 700. Joint Operation Centers in baghdad and erbil 289. In erbil, 29. And you can see the rest of the areas where air strikes have taken place. Next to that, the numbers, you can see a map here, the Islamic State advances on syria and iraq. Below this map, the lighter brown areas is Islamic State current reach. The darker squares is the full or partial militant control. And below this, the Washington Times outlines what this isis group has. Isis controls oilfields of eastern syria, border crossings, grain silos, and the dam. Its assets are believed to be 1. 5 billion. Isis weapons includes tanks, canons, missiles, artillery pieces, heavy trucks, assault rifles and ammunition. Its fighters, the estimate number includes ranges from 5,000 to 30,000, many are from western countries. Albert in tampa, florida, republican caller, hi, albert, good morning to you. Caller good morning. My biggest concern, since i served in the first war is that they need to cut off the assets of isis and also with stinger missiles, what happens if they start shooting down our aircraft and giving pows, are they going to go ahead and stand for them to execute our servicemen on tv . And theres one other concern, too. Especially in the tampa area with the news organizations publicizing our servicemen and including giving out their names, and the fact they served over there, they carried out missions, and they could become people that they could attack very easily. Ive got these concerns, and the president needs to cut off the oil supply, and what happens if russia starts wants some of the money. They just supplied surfacetoair missiles to some extremists to shoot down an airplane two months ago and the president hasnt done anything about that. Just got these concerns. Host im going to take a few more phone calls and well listen to what the president had to say about his strategy. He laid out a four part plan, well listen to that here coming up. Lets go to marlene in new jersey, an independent caller. What are your thoughts this morning . Caller ill tell you what my thoughts are. In order to be a free country you need a free press and talking about the truth. I read an article yesterday, in fact, i would read it to you today but i took up and had copies made to send to the senators and congressman, written by an fbi agent stating that there are enclaves of muslims all around the United States of america that are training with ak47s and all kinds of things in remote area, there is one in new york state 30 miles from lake superior, in virginia, west virginia, oklahoma, pennsylvania. Theyre all across the country, training to watch. And you hear nothing from our government. Host okay. All right. George in new york, independent caller, george, good morning. Caller yes, i would like to know if you can tell the American Public the difference between the isis and isil. Isis and isil, they keep saying the word and they are two different meanings. Could you please let us know what it means . Host do you know george, or just caller yes, i do know, but i want to have the information in front of me right now. Host okay. All right. Caller one is you know, the independent isil is the independent something, has nothing to do with isis. Could you look it up . Look it up online. It will tell you. Host okay. Here we got the story from a nbc affiliate. Isis has been dominating media headlines, government officials are saying isil, whats the difference . Refer to the same group. Isis stands for Islamic State in iraq and syria, because the groups territory straddles the border between the two countries. Isil stands for Islamic State. The historic name given to the entire region east of the mediterranean east of egypt. U. S. Officials use isil instead of isis to emphasize the groups goal to expand its influence beyond the borders of syria and iraq. Lets go to randy in chicago height, illinois. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Im here. Host go ahead. Were listening. Caller i would like to say i hope our government and our president realize we have more gangs in the United States than isis has over there, and i would like to see them to take care of our gangs first here in america. Here in chicago we have killings every night from our gangs and everything, and i just like to say one more thing about this. Its not a fair war for our men and women going over there, because our men and women dont know who to shoot, because they dont wear uniforms like we wear uniforms. They know who to shoot. Our men and women have a uniform on thats a target. They know who to kill. We dont. They dress like regular civilians. Host okay. All right. Lets listen to what the president had to say about this four part strategy, and we will show you the first two parts of the strategy, and well come back and show you what he had to say about the last two parts. Here is the president. First, we will conduct a Systematic Campaign of air strikes against these terrorists. Working with the iraqi government, we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions so were hitting isil targets as iraqi forces go on offense. More over i made it clear we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country wherever they are. That means i will not hesitate to take action against isil in syria, as well as iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency. If you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. Second, we will increase our support to forces fighting these terrorists on the ground. In june i deployed several hundred American Service members to iraq to assess how we can best support Iraqi Security forces. Now that those teams have completed their work, and iraq has formed a government, we will send an additional 475 Service Members to iraq. As i said before, these American Forces will not have a combat mission. We will not get dragged into another ground war in iraq. But they are needed to support iraqi and Kurdish Forces with training, intelligence, and equipment. Well also support iraqs efforts to stand up National Guard units to help sunni communities secure their own freedom from isils control. Host in his speech that lasted almost 50 minutes president obama from the white house in prime time addressing the country, laying out his strategy, part of his strategy there, for combating what he says degrading and destroying the threat of isis. That speech coming on the eve of todays 9 11 anniversary, where there will be events marking that day of 13 years ago when there were attacks on the pentagon, president obama will be there today at the pentagon along with defense secretary chuck hagel and the chairman dempsey. In new york, there will be a ceremony, as well as the World Trade CenterNational Memorial plaza. That taking place at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time today, tune in to cspan three for our coverage. Back to all of your thoughts. Reaction from capitol hill. Its a terrible mistake to avoid congress. That is what senator cornyn, part of the Republican Leadership in the senate had to say to the hill newspaper. And then younalso have senator shoe mere, democrat of new york saying president obamas speech hit the nail on the head, showing strength and resolve that will convince the world our allies and isis we mean business. Also on twitter, you have jason chafis saying but the president highlights syria, ukraine, as successes where this type of campaign has been successful. By the way no mention of our best friend in the region, israel. That coming from jason chafits. You also have senator sanders, independent from vermont who has been a very strong critic of wars, saying this. Brutal terrorist groups must be defeated. President obama authorized air strikes to syria, to destroy the Islamic State of iran and syria terrorist groups. He spelled out his strategy in the speech to the nation. Isis is a brutal and Dangerous Organization that must be defeated. I agree with the president that isis is a threat to the International Community and must be combated by the International Community, not just the United States. This struggle will not be won without the active participation of the people of iraq and syria. This cannot be a unilateral american action. That from bernie sanders, independent of vermont. And also more twitter reaction, darrell issa, a republican from california, who has authority granting the president to go into syria, he said president obama is finally ready to drop the rhetoric i am prepared to authorize the support he needs. President obama vows to destroy isis. What are your thoughts on the president s speech last night . There are the phone numbers on your screen. You can also send us a tweet at ent can also send us a tweet at on facebook. You can also email us. Take a look at what politico put together. The amount of words president obama used last night in his speech, in the most words he used, isil, he used that acronym the most, america, iraq, people, the americans, and support, terrorists, and the world, being used the most there. Well go to darrell in missouri. Hi, darrell. Caller how you doing this morning . I cant understand who the real terrorists are, because first we go into iraq based on a lie, two or 3 million iraqis, destroy their country. What did we think we were going to create . Then we turn around and go in and we kill kadafi, and look at the country now. And now were talking about going in to syria because of isis, or isil, another cia created terrorist organization, to keep americans scared, or whatever were doing. I still dont understand, you know, the media in this country. Nobody paid for the lies in iraq. And look at that country. It was much better off under saddam hussein. Why are we over there anyway . Were over there because israel wants us to be over there. Caller good morning. I hope youre well. My observations in iraq, im an old marine, i was there as a consultant to teach air traffic control, i taught average citizens and traveled about the country and met other people. I can tell you that the sunni divide is deep. For example, i asked one of the technicians, a woman, one time arent you worried about iran coming in and taking over your country after we leave . And she said oh, no, no, mr. Tim, i said if youre not worried about them then who are you worried about . I said who are you worried about . She said saudi arabia. I said why . She said because they are sunni. Many of the people, many of the shiite people that i be friended and still communicate with some today, via social media, liked george bush. Others did not because we destroyed their cou