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Imagine battlefield commanders being presidents today? i write the books. they are entertaining and exciting to read. and we have taken history from the schools. we have allowed the left to strip history out of the school. americans don't know it. when you do not know the history, you are subject to demagogues and people saying crazy loopy stuff. you have to know your history, where you came from to know where you are going and i'm trying give people an exciting way to learn the history. >> the back "valley of the shadows." we appreciate it. how many american cops have been shot by african-ame...

Hardened fighters and can't amass and maneuver effectively. >> there are thousands of strikes conducted by the united states and our coalition partners to take out isil targets. >> we disrupted their command structure, under mined its propaganda, took out half of their senior leadership. >> new bloomberg report says the u.s. is exaggerating. quote the war against the islamic state has killed thousands of fighters and even some mid-level battlefield commanders. but the organization's senior leadership and nerve center is largely untouched. here's the cia director. >> isil has basically been a p...

Mass destruction. i think what the data we had, anybody could have made that mistake. "new york times" had that on front page they had weapons of mass destruction. the way the -- the way the war was waged, it was a big screwup. we didn't have enough troops there. we united states estimated the problems there, didn't we? >> i think you're wrong. i'll tell you why. it was an evolving situation. general franks had a plan where we could have put 450,000 troops in iraq and he decided he didn't need them. he made recommendations to me and i agreed with him. other people in the national security coun...

Sustenance and, we have intercepted communications that say, hey, we only have to hold out for so long. >> and the general went onto say in that session with reporters, that he was marines are going to stay in afghanistan, for many, many years, beyond the 2011, july, 2011 deadline, for that transition phase, set by the president. so, it wasn't as if the general was signalling, that this is going to be an immediate and rapid and possibly dangerous pullout for u.s. forces, come july 2011, he was saying, in fact, there is some sense a of -- of battlefield commanders, al qaeda fighters are hunkeri...