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It operates in western iraq and eastern syria. syria is a complete no-man's-land. with respect to western iraq. the shia-led government in iraq, shia have been kind of on the hold, reluctant to be liberating sunni lands for other sunnis, so there is a real problem there. i think when we look into some of the funding for these groups, certainly there's the issue of the out in the area. the british have been launching attacks from some of the oil infrastructure that isis has been able to benefit from, but i think we also have to look at islamist side groups whether in the arab peninsula, whether...

Have to find some local sunnis who have legitimacy. that is the piece and i think that is what president obama was really referring to when he talked about how difficult this is. militarily this is not that difficult. this is not the soviet union for chinese milt rate. the problem is who governs those sunni lands in iraq. and that is what we've always found. when we go in there the military part is easy. the political is hard. >> so a terrific example of what you are talking about is sinjar. we're all celebrating the kurds chased isis terrorists out of sinjar and took over the city. be thank y...

Albeit somewhat reluctantly. people at the end of the day did not want to necessarily see their country split into three different sections. but we are beginning to see the start of that, as you're mentioning there, the prime minister of iraqi, the president of iraqi kurdistan, barzani, coming out and annexing the oil-rich city of kirkuk, saying it is part of the autonomous region of kurdistan. you have these growing bitter divides between the shia and the sunni. some iraqis will say to you, look, clearly, we aren't able to make this work, and it's something we don't want to accept but maybe m...

President's lack of a coherence strategy that's moving far too slow. listen, the curtis have literally beat isis at every battle they have fought with airpower supporting them to take back their land in northern syria and northern iraq. admittedly that's not raqqah in syria and not mosul in iraq, but these fighters, they eye says fighters are not ten feet tall, but the real problem we have here, and so our audience understands, is that isis is sitting on sunni lands. to retake that land, we don't need just shias in the iraqi army to do it. they won't hold it. to hold that land, we need sunni t...