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A fictitious country. the old axiom is you fight for the person on either side of you. so we're asking are they well trained and is there a sense of unit cohesion at that level that results from very serious and competent training? and i've got my doubts. >> and there are calls again for us to get more directly involved beyond the training and the advisers that we sent into the country. here's what senator john mccain said about it this weekend. >> we need to have a robust strategy we need more troops on the ground we need air controllers. 75% of those combat missions return to base without ha...

Weather and its impact on those air strikes. more importantly, the shias and the iraqi army do not have the will to fight toe-to-toe with the sunnis and isis. >> we need to have a robust strategy. we need more troops on the ground. we need forward air controllers. we're just referring to air strikes. 75% of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon. it is because we don't have somebody on the ground who can identify a static moving target. >> after more than a decade of training and billions of dollars in u.s. taxpayer money, the iraqi military is an army on paper only...

At this point it's a remnant of a fictitious country. the old axiom is you fight for the person on either side of you. so we're asking are they well trained and is there a sense of unit cohesion at that level that results from very serious and competent training? and i've got my doubts. >> and there are calls again for us to get more directly involved beyond the training and the advisers that we sent into the country. here's what senator john mccain said about it this weekend. >> we need to have a robust strategy we need more troops on the ground we need air controllers. 75% of those combat mi...

Mccain saying you are going to need 10,000 u.s. ground troops to beat back this isis threat to win the war against them. >> we need to have a robust strategy. we need more troops on the ground. more air controllers. just referring to air strikes. you know 75% of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon? because we don't have somebody on the ground who can identify a static moving target. >> reporter: you have people like him calling for more forces. that is not on the table. the idea of forward air controllers are continuing. that is not on the table, according to sec...

Again. global affairs analyst and contributor to "the daily beast." i want you to listen to what senator john mccain said earlier foed today. >> first to have the president recognize he was incorrect when he said we're not losing we need to have a robust strategy we need more troops on the ground we need air controllers. we're just referring to air strikes. do you know that 75% of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon? it's because we don't have somebody on the ground who can identify a static moving target. and we learned in -- you're going to be talking about the...