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Roughly since the american air campaign began in syria and iraq, that isil is, in fact, lost territory, that it now controls less than it did at the beginning. so at least provisionally, although the air campaign perhaps haven't had spectacular results in terms of decimating isis or eradicating it, it has been effective. i think -- so the military measures are not completely ineffective even if they're not -- even if they're not dramatic. the thing that's been missing as i think hillary suggested is the political piece. there hasn't been a viable political process despite the efforts of the ob...

Gathered my national security forces, and it had been a year to review where we had made progress, and what worked and what had not and put together a plan to accelerate and advance the pressure that we can place on isil. and we intend to execute on those plans, but we also think that as francois said, there is new openness on the part of other coalition members to help resource and provide ad diditio assistance both to the coalition as a whole, and to the local forces on the ground. with respect to mr. assad, i think that we have to let the vienna process play itself out. it is the best oppor...

Progress, what worked, what did not, and had put together a plan to accelerate in advance the pressure that we can place on isil. and we intend to execute on those plans but we also think as francois said that there may be new openness on the part of other coalition members to help resource and provide additional assistance, both to the coalition as a whole and to local forces on the ground. with respect to mr. assad, i think we've got to let the vienna process play itself out. it is our best opportunity. so the notion that there would be an immediate date in advance of us getting a broad agre...

Commend everything that is being done so that intelligence and information available can be used to tackle terrorists and to follow their movements so that we prevent them from doing what they want to because beyond syria and iraq, what they want is somehow to spread fear everywhere so that we doubt, so that we make decisions which are exactly contrary to what we want in terms of freedom and rights, but we will not give in. that being said, we have to defend ourselves and use intelligence diplomatically we are working on credible political transition in syria within the framework of the vienna...

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