It will not involve american combat troops fighting on foreign soil. This Counter Terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless vrlt to take out isil wherever they are with our air pour and with our partners forces on the ground. That was president obama wednesday, laying out his plan for taking on the Islamic State. In a prime time address, the president vowed to degrade and ultimately destroy the terror group through a coalitionled air campaign and support from iraqi, kurdish and Syrian Opposition forces on the ground. Its an effort the administration acknowledges could take years. So is it the right approach and can the president be trusted to followthrough . Lets ask wall street journal columnists. Brett, youve been urging the United States to act against isis for a long time. Now that the president finally has, pick out the good things first about his approach. What do you like about the videota strategy . Airpower can be effective especially against an enemy that has gotten themselves into tanks and armored equipment that can be picked off from the air. Its not so much of a guerrilla movement. And we can have effective proxies, particularly in the Kurdish Peshmerga if we give them the kind of military support that they need and i think thats right. Do you have doubts about the military forces as proxies . Theres good questions. The if capacity of the iraqis, although less so now that they have their backs to the wall and they really have to fight. And its good finally for the president to adopt a strategy of a moderate Syrian Opposition. However the idea of no Ground Troops. This syria point seems to me to be a crucial one. Because the president said you have to deny the Islamic State a safe haven. And the fact that hes doing that increases his chances here. Previously the u. S. Involvement was limited to humanitarian assistance and protecting u. S. Assets and u. S. Individuals up nearer bill. Clearly the pentagon was straining under those restraints. He has essentially green lighted our military planners in this area, so theyre going to expand their targets. For instance they ought to be able to carry out drone strikes against theyre not hanging out in waziristan. Theyre a little bit more exposed in pakistan. And at least the front has been expanded in syria. And that gives us an opportunity to start hitting targets in syria that will degrade. What about this issue of Ground Troops, because the president took pains to say no Ground Troops. Thats not very accurate. Because special forces are going to be there, at least training and probably over time carrying out kill missions, or at least were going to have to do that if we want to succeed. Because thats how we defeated the al qaeda in iraq during the surge in 2007. When you say no Ground Troops, youre putting a lot of civilian life at risk. Because ultimately no air strikes are going to be precision strikes, particularly if were going to have to go after major leaders in iraq, in mosul and Northern Iraq. The president is once again putting down a marker which hes going to be very hard put to maintain while at the same time pursuing a goal of the ultimate destruction of isis. With all of that, is this fight winnable . I think it may be, depends on what you mean by the fight. If youre talking about just isil in iraq. Can he degrade and destroy isis, thats his goal that he set out. With the strategy he articulated, i do not think he can. I think its the first step in a strategy that could develop. I dont see how you can limit our commitment to 475 trainers. It inevitably is going to have to get bigger than that. The problem is you start to raise recollections of vietnam, gradu gradualism. The question is, is this president committed enough to do what he needs to do, to hit isis both in Northern Iraq and syria. Youre already beginning to see the core members of the coalition carve out exceptions, that the germans wont use ground forces, why . Because of the per sis tbt doubts about the quality of the American Leadership and the sincerity of the president s commitment. We were better having a short, effective war and uses a lot of ground forces, heavy duty air strikes rather than an endless Twilight Struggle that goes on path obamas presidency. I want to take up this question of syria, because that seems to be the hardest strategic issue here. A lot of people say if we go after isis in syria, that degrades them, that will help assads regime and his iranian supporters. How do you go into syria without assisting assad . Isis and assad are in a kind of partnership and theres a reason why the assad regime helped schedule the oil. Its in their interest to make this a fight between the regime and isis because it tells groups like syrian christians, either youre going to be with us or youre going to be slaughtered. So striking isis creates a space within the opposition for the free syrian army. The moderate rebels, the nonradicals, the john jihadists, but we dont know if its going to work. The chance that he should have taken a long time. Hit Bashar Assads airfields. That will degrade assad in iraq. Do you agree with that . Its absolutely essential and assad remains our enemy. This is a guy who killed 200,000 people, gassed people to death. Hes irans best friend, he should not survive. When we come back, the president s speech is getting mixed reviewings on capitol hill. But does he really need congress to move forward with his isis strategy . An f16 is not a strategy. And air strikes alone will not accomplish what were trying to accomplish. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. 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The democrats who remain its sol lagsist, want to give some support to the head of their own party, so they are generally coming on board too. So there definitely is the ground work there for some sort of resolution or authorization should the president really want one. Brett, lets take the republicans first. That criticism as kim said, seems to be coming from the, youre not going far enough with a couple of exceptions, rankd paul being one of them, why commit to no Ground Troops . Do you think the president s going to get support . Its one of these cases that the president may come to rue the disdance with which he has repeatedly treated republicans on so many other votes, so many other issues. Rue how . If the republicans are going to support him, hell say, well, it doesnt matter, theyre helping me. Were going to see where we are a year from now when this Campaign Continues and the republicans are not providing the margins they need. I think that would be my guess here, i mean you think, theyre history, that a lot of them voted for the war in iraq in 2003. In the going got tough, they turned in 2004. John kerry what voted for the war before, was against it. The president himself, president obama one reason he won the white house and defeated Hillary Clinton was his opposition to the war. Well, you know, one of the things that was noted at the end of the week, was that secretary of state john kerry was declining to call this a war against isis. The president wont use that word either. Its very interesting because the democrats do not want to be in a quote, unquote, war in iraq. I mean, obama himself is obsessed with not being in bushs war in iraq. It is a war in iraq. Sorry. It is. They will not call it a war. And the progressive caucus wants a vote on authorization and theres an irony in this. Because of what obama has already done the air strikes, they did under what they call the authorization for the use of military force, the original 9 11 authorization. And obama in that National Defense speech, called for the repeal of the aumm. So the democrats are very ambivalent and torn here. Like we said earlier, it depends on the president pushing and leading him. How much time do you think the president has here to make this work, to show progress . And if it drags on six months or a year, are you going to see the emergence on the left in particular of intense opposition . Absolutely. The people who come out to support him again, they are being very cautious in this, you have mark begich who said he did not agree what the president was doing, he wasnt going to give him a blank check. The president wants this backing, both because he wants a little bit of cover for this decision and he also knows that it does look better if Congress Gets behind him. But if a year from now, things are tough, you can get that the democrats are going to split off and you will probably see an emergence of an antiwarome oute the president or someone like Hillary Clinton, who might be running to succeed him in office and that could be a big split in the democratic party. And this goes to the heart of the president s the problem with his strategy, which is a strategy that is asking americans to sustain a war over many years is going to run into political opposition, thats exactly what we learned with president bush and the iraq and afghanistan war, this is why this has to be a short, sharp and successful war. I think the president has, under the constitution, the authority to do this without going to congress, particularly under the resolution in 2001. And even 2003, because were still acting in iraq. Do you agree with that or should he go to congress to get such backing . I would like to see eric holder come out and say this administration opposeds the 1973 war powers resolution, its time to put that ghost to rest. What about as a political matter, if he goes to congress. Its a twoedged sword, because congress is always capable, as we have suggested six months from now pulling back. If he could get a clean authorization supporting what hes doing, that would be a political plus. But, you know, putting it in the hands of congress to debate this at a time, they really dont want to do it, i think it bogged down into an unproductive debate that would junked mine the president s authority. And even if they vote for it, that wont stop them from jumping ship six months from now. New developments in the irs confirm what is they have long suspected that the Justice Department is collaborating with democrats on how to spin the scandal. Musical chairs. Fun, right . Welllllllll, not when your travel rewards card makes it so hard to get a seat using your miles. 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That comes amid fresh concerns from darrell its is that justice holders department is collaborating with Congressional Democrats in its own irs probe. And he says he has a phone call to prove it. Tell us about this phone call, and what it means. So what happened here, is you had a Senior Communications aid to attorney general eric holder, who accidentally called House Oversight republicans thinking he was calling House Oversight democrats. Uhoh. Yeah. Saying, so, listen, i have got this information, i dont want it to get into the hands of the majority, so do you think we could leak it so we could have a chance to comment on it . On one level, this is a ridiculous gaff, but on another level, it does show a very coordinated effort here to obfuscate and delay this investigation. As the Justice Department said anything got this . Acknowledged it or explained it . Oh, you know, the aid basically said, oh, you know, its perfectly reasonable for the Justice Department to be talking to House Republicans and House Democrats and no big whoop. This follows the case that youve been reporting on of the Justice Department investigator andrew stralka who before he was assigned to this case, actually worked at the irs in the department under lois learner. Hes been taken off the case, but that just suggests at the minimum, an ethical lapse, but worse some kind of coordination. Right, thats right a thats what this information was supposedly about, we dont know what it was or is yet, but it was supposedly about andrew s stroka. Apparently were going to find out more when the Justice Department thinks thats reasonable. Kim, what else can we expect here as this investigation goes forward . Well, heres why this matters, paul, i think what youre seeing over the past week, and especially because of this latest revelation by the Justice Department. Remember, the Justice Department is supposed to be investigating this irs scandal. And instead, what we have got the cumulation of the last few weeks is a bunch of evidence that suggests that the irs and perhaps the Justice Department and perhaps other departments of the Obama Administration appear to have been spending the past year doing everything they possibly can to impede congressional investigators in getting to the bottom of this affair, so not just coordinating with democrats, we now have news about lois learners blackberry being wiped, this happened after congress had already started investigating, after the treasury Inspector General had already begun his investigation. You have the emails of other critical people in this scandal gone as well. At least five of them. Youve got redactions and documents that are being sent so the investigators cant actually see some of the core conversations. And by the way, i should also note, the only reason we even know any of this is because of outside litigation, which has enlisted the help of the Judicial Branch and the Judicial Branch has been forcing the irs and others to come clean with some stuff and thats b ees wh finding out they havent come clean with these investigators. Do you expect more information to come out with these independent lieutenaawsui through congress, but through the judicial system . The most important right now is a case thats brought by judicial watch, its a foia case, that has given the judge the ability, he is not happy with what the irs has been sending in and hes going to give them more power to look at things. Were going to take one more break, when we come back, hits and miss of the week. Hmm. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Everybody knows that parker. Well. Did you know auctioneers make bad Grocery Store clerks . Thatll be 23. 50. Now. 75, 23. 75, hold em. 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Amy kellogg life from london now be the latest. There really is a sense of grief across this country at the thought of someone like david hanes being killed in