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To recruit when they thought america was a weak horse. they like a strong horse. >> right. >> do you think anything that the french are doing will convince isis otherwise? >> they are just not bigxi enough, dana. they are using 10, 12 airplanes per sortie, two bombs each. the targets are march for modern than some of the targets we have hit recently. this should be u.s. aerial led campaign followed up by surgical ground campaign. unless you put troops on the ground and confront isis directly and pound them with air power, they will continue to grow and continue to do their evil mischief. >> al...

Anything other than, to use the president's words, intensification. now, we know what that means. it means more air power. and we know what that means. air power is never going to take back cities and air power is never going to occupy land, and air power is dazzling and makes good pictures, but it doesn't win wars. just doesn't. men on the ground with rifles win wars. >> charles? >> look, i can assure you that seven sorties a day is not going to win a day. we had 1100 sorties a day in the gulf war, we had 150 day in kosovo when serbia wasn't even an international interest. 70 a day is what we...

They've been on one sortie trying to find this aircraft. they've come back here to refuel. one of the pilots was saying they went inside for a briefing before coming out, and that i going up in the air quite soon once again. and basically this is becoming a staging point. this is the jumping-off point for the search and rescue operation. we're seeing these helicopters here. we're also seeing on the east of the island some ambulances that have been assembled and also a make-shift morgue so that authorities are basically preparing for the worst and the best-case scenario depending on what they f...

That the weakness that president obama showed to assad was the big thing. president obama writing a bicycle in short pants then backing away from assad. he should have bombed assad's military air fields he should have done that and never gotten the dopey helmet and short pants. those are the two things. >> on the assad thing, remember, he wanted to do it the congress and some democrats >> he has power to do what he wants to. >> there is no public support for it. then, saying he was ineffective in doing it >> a leader leads. >> the military was dead set against this. probably for a lot of good ...

Did that previous analysis now contradicted in that time line? >> no the previous analysis had a range of possible aassumptions about aircraft speed. thoseeing refined. what is tested is aircraft speed and likely position against the arcs that come out from the satellite. so bringing those two together gives you the most-credible path for the aircraft. it's an interesting process and being refined over time. what we have at the moment these are the most-credible locations of the enry and therefore, to place the search. >> the area is still very remote. what does that mean for a sortie, your ab...