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That shows strength rather than weakness and we should lead with it. >> can i make another point. where they bombed in damascus is where the free syrian army was making head way against the syrian army. they were not islamists. there's no indication whatsoever that any of these islamist groups were in that neighborhood when this was going on. secondly, you believe the free syrian army will bomb themselves? >> yes! >> they're secular. >> it is a war tactic. bomb your own people to get the united states on your side. i am not suggesting they did, i am saying until we know, why are we going to ki...

But u.s. can provide c-130s, the warthog, the a-10s, to make them available, they certainly can do that. >> nick, let me move you on to another subject. these predator drones coming in, very precise, high-tech equipment that can circle for a very long time. it doesn't involve a pilot. it is unmanned so it's safe in the sense of human resources. there was a really interesting article by david ignatius that he thought this was a really bad idea because the predators have this sort of, oh, here comes the west. they don't even -- you know, inflicting blood on another country and it's sort of an un...

West. they don't even -- you know, inflicting blood on another country and it's sort of an unfair war tactic and it makes us look like ugly americans. what are the politics of using the predator drone? >> well, we've certainly seen that negative reaction in pakistan in places where we've used predator in the past. but i think libya is different. because, after all, you remember, candy, the arab league came out and said it wanted the intervention of nato in the internal affairs of another arab state, libya. the u.n. security council has blessed this. there's widespread support for protectioning...

Mely thatme ly -- militias. they've been threatening to attack. it seems isis went in to a village and grabbed 100 or so men and boys from this village to try and stave off that shiite assault, to say that these people would be killed if the baghdad government went ahead. but certainly to put pressure on the group. this is a tactic we've been seeing from isis in many cases. they will go they will grab large numbers of people. they will either exchange them execute them make propaganda out of them but it's not the same sort of hostage taking that you've seen with western journalists, for exampl...