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Month. what do you think is the goal for the united states consideration what is happening inside iraq? >> it is very complex. you have the continuation of conflict between two religious sects and one could say malkey is at the heart of because of excluding the sunni's in his administration. one needs to ask the question what are the critical u.s. national security interest at play that would determine or have a weight on whether u.s. security forces should be involved. the obvious question and answer is we need to use whatever forces are necessary to protect american personal in baghdad in th...

Desert storm, 1991, 40-43 days there were no boots on the ground but through the air power we paralyzed an entire country's military and complished our objectives. if you look at the first 60 days of operation freedom we met our security interest through the use of air power another with indigenous forces and a few other forces from other government agencies. with persistent intelligence asset like predator and reaper you can provide continuous overwatch which allows the targeting of advisauries very

Force might be getting us embroiled into a civil war that no application of military force by a third party is going to resolve. these are the difficult questions they are dealing with. >> do you think if the decision was made we will go ahead with airstrikes, do you think we risk getting involved in a civil war in iraq? >> personal, i do. but let me lay out three generic options for the use of force to demonstrate what i am talking about that would guide the developments of the kinds and types of forces we would use. as you showed in your map, you have isis moving down through lines of commun...

To halt further movement of them toward baghdad. air power is customed made and tailored to do that and is proven to be effective time over time. but that is one set of goals and objectives. there maybe a second macrolevel objective in the context of removing forces from the villages and towns they are occupying. that is going to require the use of indigenous forces rearrange with air power to accomplish that objective and then the third one maybe eliminating the effectiveness of isis as a fighting force. so you can see be identifying those objectives there is going to be a myriad of different...

But from sources, bob, we know that it was either army delta forces or navy s.e.a.l.s who conducted it. that's from our own reporting at the pentagon. can you tell me what kind of operation might have gone down here? >> it was entirely covert in a city like benghazi. you can't go in with uniforms showing guns. both delta and the s.e.a.l.s have been practicing this for years, where they can pull up in a couple vans -- >> for years. >> -- jump out, grab the person. yeah, for years. they have been doing this since iraq, really. they need to come in quietly. they cannot come into a neighborhood fi...