CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello December 29, 2015 14:45:00
With a degree of realism, that basically tells us this is going to be a really long fight. and i think if they are going to be able to achieve some degree of success against isis they have to do a great deal more than capture territory. they are to hold that territory and change the political equation that existed in iraq before isis was even a major factor. >> this morning we heard from colonel steven warren and he said on cnn, look, it took 600 air strikes, some 2 thousand bombs just to retake ramadi which fell in may. what's it going to take in mosul? walk us through it tactically what's di...