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I think everybody and the idea there is this like trying to make it look like he s being utterly serious at the time is a little bit of a stretch. and on the iraq comment, wolf, as we know, u.s. troops are in iraqing in an advise and assist role. they may come across combat situations from time to time but the iraqis are in the lead in that fight, particularly in the bat to retake mosul with, of course, the assistance of u.s. air power. when i pressed sean spicer on that, spicer said that the president was referring to progress being made in iraq in mosul and in the fight against isis overall. but of course, when you say that u.s. troops are fighting in iraq like never before, that, of course, completely disregards what was going on during the bush administration and part of the obama administration when u.s. soldiers were fighting and dying by going house to house and trying to beat back not only al qaeda in iraq but later on isis in iraq, wolf. jim, stand by. i want to go to manu ....
no doubt about military organizations are not like a normal organization. death is a silent companion to these fighting organizations. the way they can face that kind of danger on a regular basis, they have to have good order, discipline and unit cohesion. and the fundamentals of unit cohesion are respect and trust in one another. these acts here are a violation of that trust. it is an absolute betrayal of that trust. and there s no wonder that he is very upset about it. sandra: i also want to move on to this news that we re sending 2500 troops heading to kuwait. they are ready to fight in syria and iraq. ready to fight at a moment s notice. your thoughts as we move those troops in. yeah. what s happening here, we re just seeing some of the initial installments of a change in strategy in particularly in syria. but dealing with isis overall. the president had to ask for a ....
Decision about sending in heavy u.s. forces to help them take that city. in terms of the fight, not only against isis and iraq, but the fight against isis overall, is it time to begin talking about committing u.s. troops into syria and into these kinds of places? i know you ve written about this heavily. at some level, the pentagon brass seems scared to even offer that proposal. you know, there s an old soldier saying called ground truth. you can strip out the politics. you can strip out the hope and the well wishing. at the end of the day, conditions on the ground are going to dictate what the coalition does. my sense is that ramadi is a good sign. let me tell you, leland, mosul and raqqah and syria are huge, huge isis-fortified cities, with 20,000 to 30,000 fighters. completely different situation. i think in about 13 months in a new administration they re going to rethink this campaign and we re going to see the infusion ....
It is a conflict within a conflict that has increased tension here and is certainly a distraction from the overall fight against isis. sure. hopefully it will limit strengthening isis overall. thank you very much. reporting from istanbul, turkey. still to come here, we will zoom through some of the day s other top stories including what may have caused as many as 13 u.s. rowers to get sick in rio. first, cameras were rolling the moment a wooden train trestle collapsed in oregon. a grass fire spread to the structure and it burned for hours before collapsing. that fire is still burning. no one is hurt and the fire is under investigation. ....
and i ll quote the top democrat in the house intelligence committee. this morning he said quote, i don t think we re making tremendous progress. and he continued to say, when you hear the administration s description of progress in his words, quote, alarm belling should be going off. do you agree with john boehner and secretary gates that this administration does not have a strategy? well first of all, i think secretary gates comment was there s no strategy against isis overall. i agree with that. there s absolutely no strategy that i can recognize in syria. there s an outline of a coherent strategy in iraq but erin it s been underresourced and overregulated. we have not committed enough power to this. and the forces we have in the theater are so constrained, what power they have they can t bring to bear. so when you say the united states hasn t committed enough power in iraq what are you saying? are you saying basically, i mean what i m reading into it ....