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But a major u.s. navy surveillance asset, unprovoked attack, in international airspace. it is a gray area but in my opinion a strike is justified. if it is a measured response particularly on surface-to-air missile battery that took out that drone. there are a number of strike options, it will be up to trump to decide what is right to do. jillian: we have seen the president not hesitate to strike before when warranted, we saw that with syria on a number of occasions. everyone is trying to figure out why he pulled back. a big topic of conversation. aside from what happened yesterday what would ...

A foolhardy decision. now announcing publicly 200 to 400 troops will stay in isolated patches in syria strikes me as totally irresponsible. i don't like to see symbolic use of u.s. military power. we had to fight and kill a couple hundred russian mercenaries in syria a year ago. this is a very dangerous ground. the president should not be determining head count. he's supposed to do strategy. >> and can't we assume, general, that if the head count is 400 and if it's general votel who has decided who stays and who goes, those are essential personnel. we're conducting air strikes. we were overnig...

The president should not be determining head count. he's supposed to do strategy. >> and can't we assume, general, that if the head count is 400 and if it's general votel who has decided who stays and who goes, those are essential personnel. we're conducting air strikes. we were overnight with american aircraft. that needs forward air controllers. that needs air crews on the ground somewhere. >> well, exactly. thank god for the u.s. navy and air force strike options. that's been a huge part of the hammer we've been using. we actually had u.s. army and marine artillery units in country also ope...

That if the head count is 400 and if it's general votel who has decided who stays and who goes, those are essential personnel. we're conducting air strikes. we were overnight with american aircraft. that needs forward air controllers. that needs air crews on the ground somewhere. >> well, exactly. thank god for the u.s. navy and air force strike options. that's been a huge part of the hammer we've been using. we actually had u.s. army and marine artillery units in country also operating very small elements. but, look, we don't want the white house determining the optics of military operations....

Particular policy idea towards iran. i would make one caveat on the "wall street journal" article regarding the september 6 and 7 mortar strikes that came close to the u.s. embassy. to date, we're not sure which unit within the iraqi landscape carried this out. it's not abnormal when we believe that a foreign adversary has carried out a strike against one of our assets to begin looking at possible strike options. remember benghazi. in benghazi, we were -- the u.s. government was accused of having acted much too slowly. >> do you think they're simply just looking for an excuse overall when you ...