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But we know exactly where those hardened artillery sites are. we have their latitude and congress tude with gps. we have ways of attacking those sites. you can imagine if five or six moabs were dropped in an area over there, and we had b2s that can drop 8,500 pound bombs independently targeted. in addition the readiness of those artillery sites, they don't fire. they aren't exercising them. they have been there for years. there is a readiness issue. judge jeanine: colonel hunt, you are shake your head. >> we have a lot of capabilities. but there is a-minute issue. as soon as they discover ther...

>> bill: i don't think you can stand by and do nothing. i don't know if bombing is the right thing to do but i think you have to do something. we'll give you the last word, mr. harmer. >> the days of collateral damage or significantly reduced. we are talking about tomahawk cruise missiles that have a range of 1,000 nautical miles. accuracy within 1 meter. we are talking about 98, 99% success race. i the other thing regarding who conducted this attack, we have hundreds of survivors that said this attack was conducted by aircraft. none of the rebels have that kind of aircraft. this was a false f...

Hope the rest of the council is finally willing to do the same. >> bill: joining us now from washington, christopher harmer. and from boston, fox news military analyst, colonel david hunt, author of the new book "without mercy." colonel hunt, what you think is going to happen here? >> what i think is going to happen, the secretary of defense will meet this weekend, talk to the president, and ask or tell him, two options, strategic or attacking. one is wiped the entire air force off the map. if we are sure that assad did this, or a smaller tactical strike, just take out an airfield, airfields a...

This will heighten it. that has to be a consideration. >> bill: mr. harmer, do you see it that way? >> i don't see any heightened risk. they are already in country and fighting. the people that they are fighting against are overwhelmingly isis and al qaeda. they are not the targets of this potential strike. the targets of this is striker the ability of the assad regime to develop chemical weapons. in a relatively short. backup time, we could destroy the entirety of the syrian air force. prior to the war, they were fairly big. after six years of civil war, it has been ruined. coming from an inf...

>> those numbers are clearly going up. i know the administration is talking about adding about 1,002 syria and with the numbers that we have on the ground, both in t is going on and yemen. we are getting very close to that number. the reality is, if we are going to defeat isis, it requires that we provided support for the iraqis, we are making gains in mosul. we need to make gains in arauca. but what we have to do if we are serious about defeating isis, we have got to move them out of the area and the territory that they were able to acquire. we have got to get rid of the caliphate. >> bill: o...