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Said this week. >> we hitting isil harder than ever, coalition airport, our fighters and bomber and drones have been increasing pace of their strikes. >> question: are you satisfied with the pace of progress? are you satisfied that president obama is doing egg he should to fight isis? i think the president has the overall right strategy and right to resist bringing in massive number of american troops. the iraqi would love do have americans die for iraq and syrians would although to have syrians die and the gulf states are happy for us to fight and thy but that is good for everyone but for t...

Something new. this is what president obama said this week. >> we are hitting isil harder than ever. our drones have been increasing the pace of air strikes. >> question, are you satisfied with the pace of progress? are you satisfied that president obama is doing everything he should to fight isis? >> i think he's been right to resist bringing in massive number of troops. the iraqis would love to have americans die for them, it's good for everybody but the americans fighting and dying. at the same time, while the broad outlines, i think the right ones, the pace is not going fast enough. we hav...

Becomes a detrimental to their campaign. i think they are wise to keep this fairly constrained and not let political reporters get there and ask him difficult questions along the lines he just mentioned. >> because, in large part, it might backfire? we have seen other candidates going overseas and maybe the right things were not necessarily said or the dynamics were criticized later which really could harm a candidate more than it does serve them well? >> that's right. let's not forget. this is a very difficult situation, not just for dr. carson. no americans or western politician has really c...

No one steps on any toes. i think what putin has done in europe is make himself indispensable on the syrian question which touches the refugee question in europe which is the number one political problem for europe right now, with dealing with the refugees and cutting off the source of refugee flows. putin is using syria to kind of repair his relationship with europe which was badly damaged over the ukraine crisis. i think that's the real angle from the russian perspective. >> there's been a lot of criticism about this so-called bomb doctrine. i first want to play sound from obama in august 20...

>> well, what is the cause of these refugee flows? it began with the civil war in syria, which we have not addressed adequately these last five years. and now exacerbated by isis setting up a caliphate and committing arguably religious genocide against christians, other muslim sects. the question is if you want to stop refugee flows, you have to address the cause. the cause is isis and for the last year and a half although our declared objective is to degrade and ultimately destroy isis, we have done next to nothing to accomplish that. >> where does iran and president assad of syria play into ...