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Petraeus. thank you for being here with us. i'm curious, do you think the president's strategy is tough enough? and if not. what would you strategy be? >> i have to give the administration credit. they are doubling down on their chosen strategy. they are not not backing away from it. and they are saying if we just do more of it and explain it louder that it will work. you know, i they that everyone agrees there has to be a ground component to the fight against isis. the disagreement is over who should provide it. the administration says we can develop it over time and they can assist us. but t...

Going into iraq. there is no plan to destroy isil. there's a plan to hand this to the next president for a year. >> are you saying, senator the president is not telling us the truth? >> i am saying the president and t are leading the president obama not president bush. he withdrew all troops from iraq when the military said you need to leave 10,000 behind. three years ago john mccain and lindsay graham and many others said you have to train the free syrian army. those two mistakes led to isil. there is no ground component inside of syria. we need 10,000 americans with 80 or 90,000 arabs. >> th...

Muslims are patriotic americans, those in the united states. i thought that was a very important point, given some of the rhetoric that we're hearing from some of the presidential candidates, the divisive rhetoric. i also thought the president would intensify air struks, continue to deploy special forces into syria. i think all of that is good. it needs to be more intensely applied. we need a stronger coalition, not just a big coalition. a coalition that can actually arm syrian rebel groups, sunni groups on the ground as well as the syrian kurds. because without a ground component, they have t...

Going into iraq. there is no plan to destroy isil. there's a plan to hand this to the next president for a year. >> are you saying, senator the president is not telling us the truth? >> i am saying the president and t are leading the president obama not president bush. he withdrew all troops from iraq when the military said you need to leave 10,000 behind. three years ago john mccain and lindsay graham and many others said you have to train the free syrian army. those two mistakes led to isil. there is no ground component inside of syria. we need 10,000 americans with 80 or 90,000 arabs. >> th...

Yazidi refugees are real refugees. young muslim males are not real refugees. they won't fight for their own country and want an economic future anywhere. all the stuff, we would be bigots if we took christians and other minorities, they are the refugees. so it is so politicized at this point we can't do what's right. heather: colonel peters, let's talk a little more about the things that have been politicized, in terms of taking care of isis in syria and iraq and libya alone. at least two senators, mccain, and an lindsey graham are calling for more troops, 20,000 more troops. let's listen to l...