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let s talk more about this with major general spider marks, senior military analyst. welcome, sir. hi, carol. good morning. good morning. pretty strong words from general mcchrystal, what do you say? i think general mcchrystal is spot on. the united states larger issue here is what i would call the broader sectarian inevitable kind of collapse that s taking place in that we re sitting up possibly larger shia sunni conflict that might last for who knows how long. that could be a very long horizon. clearly what you has as stan mcchrystal indicated, syria in collapse. i think it s easy to say that. bashar assad is fighting against isis. tron is providing coups for us nek, badr corps inspired by iran located in iraq. ....
Colonel, i want to start with you, you heard that america is watching what isis does in syria and beyond that she cannot be sure what could be done. does that inspire you as a soldier? no i am disappointed our leadership would say that. as americans, we have the ability to find solutions to uncertainty. i don t buy that. i am disappointed and i think our jobs as americans, it s our job to amaze the world and find a solution. humanitarian workers are fleeing ramadi and syria and yemen, and i want to focus on the civilians fleeing in iraq. are they asking for more help from the united states? you know right now the ....
Alert zone. a showdown in the skies, and chinese navy warning the u.s. to stop. only cnn is there. plus a family tortured and killed and their home set on fire. a d.c. murder mystery and now a suspect thanks to a pizza delivery. let s talk live in the cnn newsroom. good morning. i am carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. an ancient city falls and a new enemy enemy surges and today residents tell us that isis fighters are going door to door hunting down government soldiers and likely next in the crosshairs irreplaceable ....
Looking for regime sympathizers. it s a convenient place, vital strategic place for isis it has an airport, prison gas fields as well. most importantly it showsres up their southern flank and gives them clear access to major highways to damascus and syria, latter capital, both regime strongholds very significant change on the battlefield today inside syria just after a significant change in the battlefield inside iraq with isis taking ramadi. carol. nick paton walsh reporting live this morning. thank you. i want to you take ta another look at the beautiful 2,000-year-old temple and tombs in palmyra syria, any day isis could destroy these temples or dismantle them and sell them on the black market. the big question why is isis waiting to below these temples. it houses assad regime s most feared detention and torture facilities. let s talk more about that with a professor for mesopotamian ....
Applied priority. the very last one of choice is always the military. so we haven t really done what we should have done on the military side. we aren t in this mess because we re in iraq but because we left iraq and we didn t build a coalition when we had an opportunity to do that. diplomatic is off the plate. we can t get there from here. the choice is military and we re doing what we ve decided to do right now is to let this thing kind of burn and observe and not let baghdad go away. we are not going to let baghdad fall. i would suggest baghdad is not at risk right now anyway. all right. general spider marks, i have to leave it there. thank you so much. i want to focus now on the ancient city of palmyra, syria, it s in the hand of isis fighters and antiquities and at their mercy. more on that. reporter: carol, we re talking about a city here which not only housed tens of thousands of people and probably ....