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If you talk to the ysatiss they say in no way a victory. they have no money to rebuild the city from the ground up and say what's going to stop isis from attacking in a few weeks and a few months and committing another massacre like happened last august in which hundreds of ysatis men, women and children were killed when they were taken into custody. children were taken as child soldiers and i spoke to some of the survivors this week who say they are terrified it will happen again. >> sophia jones with amazing report out of sinjar from erbil, iraq, right now. joining me, editor to the atlantic...

Contingent that was successful in essentially destroying the group? >> i think the ground troops, the president is right, the ground troops have to be the local ground troops. we can have a limited number, maybe as we have 3500 in iraq and we just put 50 into syria. basically to advise and assist. if you look at the operation last week where the peshmerga cut off route 47 which is the main route from the raqqaing to mosul which is the capital for the isil in iraq and they took back sinjar and they had americans advising and assisting, that's the way to go. you put american or western ground tr...

Assuming we wanted to, not saying we do. france can't do that. >> that's not on the table or part of the political discussion when people argue about the range of options. it's not a discussed option. >> given the size of our military, noing. > okay. cyril vannyer, thank you very much. coming up, more from paris plus an analysis of the rhetoric versus the reality of combating isis and latyer on the american presidential politics on a litmus test for syrians. >> which is why i said that look, at a minimum, we ought to be bringing in people that he have like orphans and people that clearly are...

>> that's absolutely right, chris, because the competition for the most bellicose rhetoric is the only competition. as pointed out, this is a terrific issue if you're running for president. it's a terrible issue if you are president. because if you're running for president and you know there weren't good solutions and you know the current president is pretty much doing the only things that can be done, you can yell about doing anything. full in the knowledge that you're not going to do it once you get the opportunity. so beak, what you have is a bunch of republicans turning up the rhetorical h...

And i thought wrote an interesting piece about some of the fear expressed about the possibility of infiltration of isis by refugees. here in paris you can feel the moment in politics. you can really feel it, this sense they might strike anywhere and we have to take measures. we saw that play out in the u.s. are you surprised by the tenor of american politics in the last 48 hours? >> absolutely not. i spent all weekend lighting candles and saying that it was the democratic debate on saturday night, not a republican debate because i can't imagine what that would have been like. yeah, what i wrot...