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With doing this much more rpdly and not defer this to the next administration. 10,000 is not combat troops it's trainers, advisers and air controllers helping the iraqis get their act together. >> obviously americans are concerned. general keane, thank you. >> merry christmas, john. >> merry christmas to you. we'll be right back.
Keep doing that. so that the multiyear strategy has got to be shelved. and we have got to have a sense of urgency and resolve to bring this to an end as quickly as we can. that's where the major policy shift has to be taken. and the sooner we get on with that, the better in terms of the safety of the world and american citizens. >> most seem to agree that just striking from the air is not going to get the job done. there is agreement about where you go beyond that. last night, senator bernie sanders talked about he doesn't want any u.s. troops on the ground. he says it has to be muslim troops ...
People on the ground in any great numbers. it's going to require a regional force, multi-national force of interested parties in the region and you can't even get those people to agree on which side they're on. so it's going to be extremely difficult to eradicate isis militarily. what is going to happen, i believe, is that there's going to be a slight increase in special forces, special operations forces, people on the ground to control air assets, ground liaison officers and forward air controllers, and mobile training teams. but you're not talking about an enormous number of troops and you'r...
Sinai and yemen. that means you need a worldwide coalition. he brags about a coalition of 65 countries, let's see him stand up and do something about it. number four, put soft forward air controllers with the americans, french and british and the sunni elements that are willing to fight with us against isis. if don't you have them out there, you can't run a serious air campaign. and you've got to deploy a couple of carrier strike groups to the mediterranean with a marine ground task force to run s.a.r. and you have the air assets to run a serious air campaign, which we've not run yet. number s...
Allies, and more arab partners would need to increase our presence on the ground. >> bush has not said how many u.s. troops he would send into battle. relying on the wisdom of military leaders to pick the number. trump would also put more u.s. boots on the ground, as would carson. rubio would use special forces and forward air controllers. while cruz appears to have backed off statements he made earlier that u.s. troops would be needed in the fight. >> i don't believe the answer is sending boots on the ground to syria. i think president obama and i think far too many republicans are eager to g...