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If you were advising the president, what would you tell him? >> when we planned to go do these things we have four phases. deploy, shape the battlefield, fight. that's the part we all call war and stick around to create stability on the ground. stabilization operations. if you don't do phase four you get to do one two and three again. three, five, seven years in the future. unfortunately, i think the argument with the president now between the president and his military advisors is not about phase four. it's about allowing them to finish phase three and so even if they talked the president int...

This is not only a fight against an extremist group, it's a sectarian divide in which most sunnis have been deeply alienated from this government. unless we can find a way, probably partnering with iran, of pushing this government towards being much more inclusive, i'm not sure military action will do much good. >> ambassador jeffrey, do you believe that some form of u.s. military action is necessary, at least in the short term, to try to buy some time? >> exactly. that's where i disagree with peter. his formula is absolutely correct for trying to develop stabilization operations in the sunni ...

Until isis is defeated or stay all the way through a stabilization process? i put that question to the french president today. >> how long, president macron, do you believe u.s. troops need to stay in syria? >> we will acces assess during e weeks and months what we have to do. when you are at the end of the war have to adapt to the relates. we are not here to say this day we will leave the floor. that's impossible because it will depend on the reality on the ground. but for sure what we want to do now is to finish this work with our troops and we want to fix in the long run the situation to ha...