We want to begin this morning with another looming issue, how the u. S. Should deal with isis and isil. There is a new poll out showing a majority of americans want Ground Troops. Do you agree or do you disagree to go . 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7458002 for independents. Or send us a tweet http twitter. Com cspanwj. Post on facebook, www. Facebook. Com cspan. Or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. Here is a comparison from september of last year. Those who favor the use of Ground Troops now at 57 versus 47 . Those who oppose 37 percent, what was 46 just a few months ago. We also have a line set aside if youre active or retired military. That number is 202 7480003. Good sunday to you. Lets begin with the New York Times. The piece points out that american intelligence agencies are struggling to determine how difficult it will be to take over multiposul. I battle that is intensifying for aor a major test of the Obama Administrations strategy to stop the spread of the terrorist group in the middle east. By the way most will is a city of about one million people. There are an estimated 1000 to 2000 isil forces that have taken that city according to the New York Times. This week, the president will be focused on my lifestream is him including what we are seeing in that part of the world. [video clip] collects we must ignore knowledge groups like al qaeda and isil are targeting their propaganda to muslim communities, particularly muslim youth. Muslim communities, including scholars and clerics, have a responsibility to push back. Not just on twisted interpretations of islam but on the line that we are somewhat engaged in a clash of civilizations, that america and the west are someway at war with muslims. That narrative sometimes extends far beyond terrorist organizations. That narrative becomes the foundation on which terrorist build their ideology and by which they try to justify the violence and that all of us, including muslims, are the ones most likely to be killed. Obviously, there is a complicated history between the middle east, the west, and none of us should be immune from criticism in terms of specific policy. But the notion that the west is at war with islam is an ugly line. All of us, regardless of our faith, have a responsibility to reject it. Steven the president this past week at a white house summit focusing on violent extremism. His comment on lima islam. Our question should we send Ground Troops to fight isis or isil . Another threat facing the u. S. And canada, this from cnn. Com. The Group Alshabaab has released a video threatening malls in canada, you u. K. , and the u. S. They left over 60 people dead at a mall in nairobi. In a new video, they call for a new attack on malls. Mall of the america says that it is aware of the video that name to as a potential target. Again, this morning from cnn. Com. Lets get to your phone calls on the issue of Ground Troops fighting isis. We will go first to our caller from roanoke, virginia. Caller my take on this is quite simple. We do need Ground Troops. I do not believe we can win this in the air. Steven lets go next to daniel. Democrats line. Caller first off, god bless america. God bless all of americans that jens, current, past, present. God bless their bravery. Pertaining to rethink ing mosul, no Ground Troops until all have options have been purged. As far as fighting isis, america has to bring back a 10. As an analogy, for instance, if you were out there clubbing mailboxes, as we did as children, would you use of ferrari . Or would you use a 1951 mercury . What im trying to say is you do not use such a sophisticated aircraft as an f16, you use Something Like an a10. Something easily manageable, something that is a simple aircraft. Why they have retired the a10s is one more instance of the military industrial congressional complex. Steven thank you for your call. By the way, we do have a line set aside for those of you in the military. That line is 202 7480003. We are posing the question, that cbs news posed in their survey do americans want to send Ground Troops to fight isis . Americans increasingly see isis as a major threat. 18 view it as a minor threat. Next is grace joining us on the sunday morning. Independent line. Long beach, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. I really want to know how much of this is high. How much of congress putting into this . When we had the of bola scare, everyone had scare, everyone hopped on it. We need to calm down and think this over. We dont want to get in another war. We are over there and definitely, and children are getting killed. I have grandchildren of that age. I dont need it. Neither does his world. We need to call down. Steven thank you, grace for the call. The cover story of the atlantic magazine what isis really wants and how to stop it. There is also the story Available Online at the atlantic. Com. For the first time, american support Ground Troops against isis. This is from a new gallup Study Released on wednesday. Terrorism is a National Priority ranked fifth for other issues like the economy and unemployment. Again, that is from the atlantic. Going next to cody from older, colorado. Caller i do not think we need to send troops out there. I think we have learned our lesson from the iraq war. I think this whole blackhole started from 2003. We made iraq a very unstable state. Should we do something about it . I think we should. Boots on the ground, no. Maybe some type of airstrike, possibly. I think it is time for the United States to let that part of the world handle that problem , with the exception of the fact that we did cause and so we must be involved. That is my opinion. Thank you for taking my call. Steven cody, thank you for getting up early on a sunday morning. From my Facebook Page a lot of you already weighing in. Here are some of your comments. From jed, read orwells 1984. Karen says, ok, but how will be paid for . Phillips says, can we afford not to . Deedee says, no, no americans on the ground. Sean tase says, not under the leadership of this president. Rad says, better than the state departments plan on trying to give them jobs. Finally, no way. Send us a tweet. If youre just tuning in or listening on cspan radio, we are asking the question, based on the cbs survey from this past week, do support Ground Troops to fight isis. Good morning. Caller i would say no to Ground Troops because is exactly what isis wants. They want to draw americans into iraq so they can kill americans. They cant defend against the airstrikes because they dont have the equipment and technology. They are fitted to fight a ground war. They want americans over there. If we go back over there again we been there for 10 plus years we will not get out. Steven thank you for the call. But go next to andre from cap a, florida. What is your take on all this . Caller someone said the same thing i was thinking. 1984. Instead of sending Ground Troops, we have superior air technology, drop bombs on them. If they are in an urban setting tell the regular people to get out. Job something heavy on them. Hit them hard and not some sense into them. I know they have a religious basis, or whatever. If you want everyone in the world to become muslim dont chop peoples heads off, that will not win anyone. Thank you for taking my call. Steven npr is also reporting on this. Available online at npr. Com. U. S. Command officials telling the pentagon that retaking mo sul will be in the april to may timeline. Tom bowman pointing out that they did say it wont be easy because Islamic State fighters had been dug into that city since last june when they took it over. Asked why a timeline would be publicized months before, he said that the topic came up, it might be a psychological operation to unsettle the enemy. In addition, you want to give civilians side to leave the area. Jenny is joining us from lakewood, washington. Caller good morning. No, i totally disagree with Ground Troops to fight isis. There are 1. 6 billion muslims worldwide, most of them are in the mid east. If they are not willing to sacrifice their own lives, why should we sacrifice american lives. There is one million inhabitants in mosul at 1000 to 2000 isis there. If they were in an American City with 2000 Ground Troops, they would not last a hot minute. These muslims cannot sacrifice their own lives, five for themselves. I say stay out of it and let them take each other out. Steven go ahead, your other point. Caller we are billions in debt fighting these wars. Give me a break. Thank you. Steven the other story that we are tracking this week is with secretary of state john carried back this week. He is said to talk on appropriations issues. Brush is likely to come up. From the Washington Post this morning. Despite speaking to reporters yesterday kerry said he expected that the United States and the europea allies would impose some very serious sanctions and other steps to punish moscow after repeated ceasefire violations i russian backed ukrainian separatists. Kerry said one of the most egregious violations was a separatist assault on the strategically important railway halt. President obama and european leaders have vowed that it will be caught to get valve there will be consequences. Lets go to bedford, michigan. Independent line. Good morning. Caller thank you for having me. I oppose sending Ground Troops into iraq. Iraq and syria. We spent several trillion dollars in equipping iraqs military so it can fight wars for itself. For us to send more can troops american troops into iraq were just continue the military Industrial Complex for this country. I do not think the current authorization of military force in iraq provides any provisions to subset the previous 2001 authorization. Steven thank you for the call. His first trip outside of u. S. As defense secretary two days after being sworn in, Ashton Carter within afghanistan yesterday. In the New York Times u. S. Open to slowing troop pullout in afghanistan. Ashton carter arriving afghanistan on saturday and opened up the possibility of slowing the withdrawal of the last american troops in the country to help keep the taliban at bay. Those 10,000 troops are now conducting counterterror operations and most are scheduled to be with john by the end of 2016. Mr. Carter said that the Obama Administration was open to having a stronger military relationship with the current afghan unity government. Mr. Gottis government has reset relations with the west after turbulent years. That is a photo of Ashton Carter in afghanistan. Lets go back to your phone calls on the issue of fighting isis. Good morning. Caller good morning. I strongly agree that we need to bring a law of arduous back into a lot of our troops back into fighting over there. We have a lot of ice is coming forward and saying that they will produce against us, as well as france and other nations. Daily,. We just need to go in and take care of it, i believe. Steven chris, thank you for the call. We will go next to gave joining us from South Carolina. Welcome to the program. You are on the air. Go ahead, please. Caller yes. Steven please give us your comment. We will move on. Sorry about that. We will go to bob from melbourne, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning, steve. I think if we are going to put boots on the ground we should reinstate the draft with no consideration for college deferments, and also we should waive the age for members of congress who are ablebodied. All of these people who are anxious to going to war are thinking about the independent service that we had in the past. I think it would deter a lot of people if they thought that their sons and whatnot would be involved in actual fighting. I think netanyahu is very much trying to get the United States into a ground war with iran. It is very bad. We have had enough full list wars, we do not need anymore. Thats all he had to say. Nice talking to you. Steven by the way, the israeli Prime Minister is still scheduled to be here next week march the third for his speech before congress. If that goes on as planned, we will have live coverage here on cspan. Michael flint, the former director of the Defense Intelligence agency has written a lengthy piece on how the iraq defensive will fail. He makes this point that american officials plan to train iraqi troops. It is likely to fail. Unless the u. S. Takes dramatic more action that we have so far in iraq, the large lly shiite troops are likely not by themselves to take over mosul. The u. S. Must be prepared to provide much more, like logistics, for example. Again, that is from politico. Lisa. Independent line. Caller good morning. My comment is that we should probably send in special forces, similar to rambo. I dont know enough about the military. Get our forces out of there. I know it is a lot of people who are being martyred for even being christian. I think something really needs to be done about that. Steven thank you for the call. The front page of the Chicago Tribune a preview of the primary. It is what is being called a final push before the primary. The president was in chicago this past week to dedicate the pohlman site which is now a national monument. We will go back to her calls on fighting isis. Do we need Ground Troops . Justin. Good morning. Caller good morning. My opinion is that it would be better if we just let the arab countries take responsibility. Weve already had 13 years of war and sending u. S. Troops in there. I think it is time. We cant do anymore. We have so much debt. I think it is time to let the arab countries its a problem the muslims themselves have to face. Steven from National Review this week. Female rage. From the standard the transgender trial. Triumph. Democrats line. Caller thank you for taking my call. Ive been watching since 1982. I like listening to the American People. This is my first time calling. I must say this. For this discussion that we are having this morning, it amazes me that people do not have recall of what we just went through for the last 10 years. Im a military veteran and i will help fight with any ally. They are asking for us to send troops in the to fight for potential ally that ran. For the life of me, i can understand why these politicians can assess to send our sons and daughters to fight for military that we do not know will fight for themselves. Basically, what we really need to do this is basically a religious war, and we are in the middle of it. We do not need to be in that war. Steven john, thank you for the call. We will go next to richard joining us from beacon, new york. Good morning. Caller good morning. I would just like to make a comment the isis is a threat to our whole world. Why does always have to be american troops . Since it affects all of us, why cant we send in the chinese and russian troops. They could do a fine job also. Steven thank you for the call. Next we will go to lawrence in allenwood, georgia. Good morning. Caller good morning. I say no troops on the ground. Who will pay for this war . Steven thank you for the call. Next we will go to v a caller from new jersey. Caller good morning. My question is why were we over in iraq and syria on the isis again when we were supposed to go over there to bomb another group that was supposed to be putting bombs in our cell phones. I dont get why we are over the embalming isis. Im income i mean bombing iraq. We were supposed to be taking care of a group that was putting bombs in a cell phones. Whats the deal . Going to war why . Lies, all the time. I would like someone to explain that to me. Steven thank you. From the Associated Press reporting on the visit by the israeli Prime Minister. The white house tries to counter netanyahus visit. Trying to blunt his message that potential and nuclear deal with iran is bad for israel. There are ideas of the president giving in iran focus speech. Other options remain on the table. Among them, and interview with a prominent journalist on the ro risks with nine yahoo . Also, a pointed snout of the proisrael lobby which is holding a meeting during netanyahus visit in washington. A meeting between the president and the israeli Prime Minister has been ruled out as inappropriate just weeks before the elections in israel. Again, that was from the Associated Press yuriko this past week this past week, jeb bush talked about iraq and mistakes, including mistakes made by his brother, george bush. This is jeb bush from chicago. [video clip] first the strategy needs to be restrained them. Tighten the news. Theres no talking about this. That will not work for terrorism. It has to be done in concert with the folks in the region. You look at jordan. Jordans population has grown, i think double digits with refugees from syria. Cap refugees from iraq, from previous wars with israel. Palestinians are there. This country is a powder keg. Similarly, other countries in the region are seeing real challenges, whether it is turkey or the persian gulf states, or the saudis who have an estimated 1000 citizens hired for isis. These are big security threats in the region. 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