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Dagestan. you have a few hundred fighters. so the situation is very dangerous for them. especially for all these countries in central asia. you look at it from different perspective. . all these people are going there not for the interest of fighting assad, but they are trying to train all these fighters because maybe they would use them back. if you remember after the afghan jihad. even here in the united states, we have terrorists attacks conducted or plotted by people who actually went and traveled to afghanistan during the soviet jihad. that's why it's important also to point out that peop...
Secondly, russia was bombing the turkmen who are fighting assad, and allied with turkey. so it is really a combination of things, constant penetration of turkey's air space, and the bombing of the resistance forces against assad, and under those conditions, turkey was certainly right in doing it from their perspective. they have to maintain their national sovereignty, and i believe it is important that since turkey is a member of nato and not always a reliable ally of the united states, but they are a member of nato, and it is our obligation to stand with turkey in this confrontation. >> and i...
With national reconciliation, and finally, stand up a national guard. baghdad needs to accept, even embrace, arming sunni and kurdish forces in the war against isis. but if baghdad won't do that, the coalition should do so directly. on the syrian side, the big obstacle to getting more ground forces to engage isis beyond the syrian kurds who are already deep in the fight is at the viable sunni opposition groups remain understandably preoccupied with fighting assad. who let us remember has killed many more syrians than the terrorists have. but they are increasingly under threat from isis as well...
In the advice and trip, and this is part of the strategy to get them in there, and general dempsey said it a year ago when we had more contact, and had more indications that things were moving further, and he would go to the president, and suggest that we have the advisers in, and that is what we are seeing now, and this has not happened overnight. there is at lot of coordination, and a lot of cooperation, and the naming of the contacts that we didn't have before, and this could hasten, i think, the activity in northern syria. >> and not the suggest that northern iraq has not been complicated,...