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Forward politically today. we don't want to commit military forces and risk lives and the treasure of the nation if we don't know what the end state is. the problem in iraq was we didn't have an end state. we hadn't done our political thinking to get it through. this is the time to put this together. so it's easy to focus on the military but it's not the right answer at this point. the question is what's the political shape and that's what the jousting is going on in vienna, that's the jousting going on between turkey and russia with the shoot-down. the question is, will bashar al assad stay a...

It's understanding where you can put boots on the ground effectively to create a front. and right now syria is simply not a place we can do that. i'm not saying we should not have military activities within syria. i'm talking about when it comes to military commitment on the part of the united states and putting ground troops in the only viable place that i can see right now is in iraq. we have the peshmerga who are willing to fight if we could give them sufficient arms. we've seen already they took back sinjar, i think they could do more with a lot more support of the u.s. and the same is tru...

Doesn't there need to be some kind of a change, some kind of a shift in the anti-isis strategy of the united states? here's my back and forth with the secretary of state. now that they're committing these mass attacks outside of the border, they are changing their modus operandi. don't we have to change? doesn't the united states have to change -- >> what does that mean when you say we have to change? most americans do not want and don't think it's necessary to be sending massive numbers of american too manies to occupy -- troops to occupy syria. it didn't work so well in iraq. >> reporter: an...

Republicans. but republicans have been more vocal today. >> a lot of the republicans especially running for president. you start with jeb bush. jeb bush had some supportive words for the president but also he says, he is glad that president obama has dropped his plan to abandon the region entirely. if he is truly committed to fighting terrorism and securing a stable afghanistan, he shouldn't shortchange where our military commanders have said they need to complete the mission. marco rubio also weighing in, who is staked out very hawkish turf in this republican race responding not so much to th...

Essentially the end of the world, this iran will now have a nuclear weapon and that war is upon us. >> well there's an assuming out there that some people have that iran is s irrational regime waiting to destroy the united states or israel. i spent a lot of my career trying to thwart the iranians but i think they're rational. we're a lot stronger than they are. if we can stand up to them with a strong deterrent by strengthening our relationship with israel and also strengthening our military commitment to the gulf states including saudi arabia we can contain iranian power in the middle east ce...