What Ramadi News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Ramadi. joining me retired colonel jack jacobs. a good morning to you this morning, sir. the bbc says 3,000 shiite malitiamen are going to join in this assault. what are the chances they can take back ramadi? >> i think it is going to be pretty good. the shiite militias are extremely vicious. and given the mission in the past, they have done exactly what they have been asked to do. and i think it is really kind of interesting that they are using shiite militias in what is basically a sunni area which is one reason why isis has been able to take the area that and the fact that another iraqi arm...

What would work militarily but what we're doing now is not working or not working very quickly. >> you say not working or not working very quickly, do you think at this moment especially when you look at the kind of symbolic loss that happened with the fall of ramadi, do you think the u.s. strategy is right now failing? >> it is failing to defeat isis quickly. a disagreement with the administration since last summer is this idea that this is something we can do long-term like defeating war on drugs or poverty in appalachia, this is right now emergency situation and it's coming on the heels of ...

>> in iraq, new video into cnn shows thousands fleeing the city of ramadi. they fear for their lives. look at that as isis expands its grip on that newly captured city. we want to bring in ian lee with the latest. ian? >> reporter: isis advance is still taking place outside of ramadi there pushing toward the iraqi security forces, which are emassing just west of baghdad hoping as they say to retake the city but isis as we're hearing is digging in preparing for any sort of offensive. really is what's going to be difficult is trying to get these forces to work as a cohesive unit giving them the ...

Now with isis in control of mosul. they just took over ramadi. at some point, ambassador, do we stop talking about the idea that isis is holding these areas and perhaps come to grips with the reality that isis has all but n annexed them. >> what it looks like on the ground is containment. that's not what president obama says his policy is. that's not what he's selling to the american people. if he wants to do containment, he has to explain how to contain such a crazed movement with such magnetic appeal across the islamic world with so many threats to our interests throughout the region. if he ...

To military to do that. that we haven't seen. >> if you were the current ambassador to iraq, what would your advice be right now? how would you advise president obama to proceed? >> make a choice. >> you don't think he's made a choice? >> he needs to make another choice. he was hoping to destroy isis or push it back without risk or political skin in the game. what ramadi has proven is that isn't so. today he has to decide. if he does want to destroy isis, he's going to have to turn to his military commanders and say what do i need to give you? what political risks do i need to take to cover yo...