Absolutely not. I just hope that you will stay on this because, as you know, better than any of us, if you dont have good intelligence, youre not only going into the battle blind, if its cooked intelligence, youre going into the battle with one hand tied behind your back. So i just am extremely concerned about this issue. This is a question for the record. You use the term progress in your statement a number of times, progress here and progress there. Not now but for the record i would like a very specific list of what you consider progress, where we are where we are succeeding because generally it doesnt look like that. It looks more like a stalemate. I would like a onepager on where you think progress has been made. Id be happy to provide that, sir. Well get that to you right away. Thank you. I think from a broad question of policy and this comes off of a lot of the other discussion weve had, assad and isis are evil twins. Isis largely came into existing in reaction to assad. And in
Different way. We would not regard success by a al nusra as a satisfactory or acceptable outcome. If i was put on the spot of ranking control i would have to think quite hard about that. Both would be unacceptable to us. We have made that clear to any of your partners in the coalition who have ever been inclined to think otherwise. It includes al musra but other parties as well. We recognize the situation on the ground is not as we would like it to be. It is complex. Sometimes compromises do have to be made on the ground, tactical compromises. You know, the history of warfare is you have to make tactical compromises. The complexity, for example, is everyone. Isnt this an area where british diplomatic capability, the capacity to coordinate in a sense combined with our unlimited hard power actually cant make difference in isolation. Soft power diplomacy is where the nations main effort in trying to bring others together. Thats where our main effort ought to be focused, isnt it . Its part
Recent happened in recent months with six israelis killed as a result of terrorist activities that some of the people who were released during our last prisoner deal, have been involved in different levels. This raises a huge dilemma for the israeli society. And a huge dlilemma for the government. So these are questions that are very, very difficult to answer. And there are no good answers. You can think of pro and cons for each way that you might choose to answer it, and this is on ongoing effort that we are still, i think, very much in the midst of it. One of the famous israeli experts on this issue suggested, for example, that there have been changes in the way the terrorist organization conducted their kidnapping activities as a result of the way that the government of israel chose to react to them. So there is a significant difference between those kidnapping attacks that went on in the 70s and the ones that we experience since the 80s to this day. The main difference is that in t
Recent happened in recent months with six israelis killed as a result of terrorist activities that some of the people who were released during our last prisoner deal, have been involved in different levels. This raises a huge dilemma for the israeli society. And a huge dlilemma for the government. So these are questions that are very, very difficult to answer. And there are no good answers. You can think of pro and cons for each way that you might choose to answer it, and this is on ongoing effort that we are still, i think, very much in the midst of it. One of the famous israeli experts on this issue suggested, for example, that there have been changes in the way the terrorist organization conducted their kidnapping activities as a result of the way that the government of israel chose to react to them. So there is a significant difference between those kidnapping attacks that went on in the 70s and the ones that we experience since the 80s to this day. The main difference is that in t
Recent happened in recent months with six israelis killed as a result of terrorist activities that some of the people who were released during our last prisoner deal, have been involved in different levels. This raises a huge dilemma for the israeli society. And a huge dlilemma for the government. So these are questions that are very, very difficult to answer. And there are no good answers. You can think of pro and cons for each way that you might choose to answer it, and this is on ongoing effort that we are still, i think, very much in the midst of it. One of the famous israeli experts on this issue suggested, for example, that there have been changes in the way the terrorist organization conducted their kidnapping activities as a result of the way that the government of israel chose to react to them. So there is a significant difference between those kidnapping attacks that went on in the 70s and the ones that we experience since the 80s to this day. The main difference is that in t