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Of a 20-year war. those blackhawks were not given to the taliban. they were given to the afghan national security forces to defend themselves at the specific request of president ghani that came and asked for additional air capability, among other things. the president had a choice. he could not give it to them with the risk it would fall into the taliban's hands eventually or give it to them with the hope they could deploy service of defending their country. both of those options had risks. he had to choose. he made a choice. and from the point of view of that particular narrow example to a m...

This is on the west coast in an enclave. and there is al qaeda in there which we think it was used against. not sure it was used against civilians. there is not much media in that area. probably take a while to sort through this. any time suspected chemical use by assad is being revealed, you have to lean a little towards the likelihood that it's true. he has the track record of having done it. >> bill: he is hanging onto power. a bit of a story that has fallen off the raid area. two years ago a month ago we responded because of chemical weapons that were used. where is the administration on t...

Fully met, the american military might be deepening its involvement in syria instead of reducing it before leaving. >> i think the presence of turkey woke up and thought it might not be such a good idea to ask us to leave. last week alone we took 400 strikes against the islamic state. turkey doesn't have the capability we have come of the logistics, the air capability our counterinsurgency tactics and strategy that turkey doesn't have. when you've got iran and russia busy mounting chemical weapons attacks against innocent civilians, they aren't mounting attacks against isis. turkey has been hi...

Are so extensive that if fully met the american military might be keeping its involvement in syria instead of reducing it before leaving. >> president erdogan woke up and maybe thought it wasn't such a good idea to ask us to leave. just last week alone we took 400 strikes against the islamic state, turkey doesn't have the capabilities we have, the logistics, the air capability. our counterinsurgency tactics and strategy the turkey doesn't have and then you've got iran and russia mounting chemical weapons attacks against innocent civilians. turkey has been hit with a lot of terrorist attacks an...

Twofold, one to eliminate isis geographic space and destroy them and then secondly to eventually to induce iran to remove their military capability from syria, that's a very difficult long-term challenge but one that the israelis would appreciate. are 2,000 troops coupled with air capability, they have been able to provide train and assist, assistance to kurds, i think we have done a lot obviously to combat isis, certainly the russians and the syrians and the iranians aren't doing it. as far as getting iran out of syria, that's a taller difficult order, i think it would take more commitment on...