Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140618:13:17:00
The administration has determined there just aren't operable targets. the problem with a terrorist insurgency is that the enemy is spread out. it's not as if you can attack a fixed military installation or something like that. instead the u.s. is looking at some combination of special ops, unmanned drone strikes. this is akin to how the u.s. fights al qaeda in yemen or between afghanistan and pakistan. as the administration keeps pointing out, the ultimate goal here is to see if there is a political solution to this problem, not a military one, so they want to convince prime minister maliki to...