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The commanders have not always been of the most professional caliber, that is a present oent assessment they've made. those are all of the pieces you're going to have to have to place if you're thinking about going to mosul. >> general, let's say they succeed in taking back ramadi and mosul. at that point can iraq and the united states declare that isis is on the run? >> not by any stretch of the imagination. they may be pushed back inside of iraq. in fact the iraqi security forces could push them all the way back to the borders of iraq. but to suggest that isis is on the run. let's be clear. ...
Once you grab it, it goes in an opposite way. taking back ramadi may not have long-term implications. >> that's because of holding the territory and having the factions work together, correct? >> in the iraqis went in and stabilize it, they'd have to come up with a political system to stabilize so that some of them wouldn't collaborate with isis. the iraqi government's been very bad at that for many years now. part of the problem is that isis has been able to take advantage of the political -- >> we're going to see if these two front with defense and diplomacy can work as we enter 2016. that's...
Psychological blow to isis. in 2001, bin laden said there are strong horses and there are weak horses and people are naturally attracted to the strong horse. and right now isis's great advantage is to to many jihadi minded muslims around the world it looks like the strong horse. insofar as the united states is fighting this kind of battle of containment, this battle at the edges and not winning the war it is only feeding that imagination. feeding that perception of isis being a group that has staying power. a strategy against isis has to begin with the united states destroying its cap tam in r...
The ammunition, they say they have the people. it's about political will it's about does the iraqi ministry of defense have the same script that it's reading off, that the shia militia they fight alongside that it's reading off, do they all want to work together to defeat isis or is there going to be lack of cohesion like we've seen that allow cities lycra maud deto fall? as you saw, there are iraqi special forces who do want to take the fight to isis. >> all right, thank you very much nick payton walsh as you saw on the front lines there. those forces wanted to show they were ready to fight b...