falling fast. focusing on the successes that this administration has had fighting isis. those are successes built on the last two years in the anti-isis campaign and the president is correct in that sense. the problem is, is when isis leaves or isis is destroyed, there is a vacuum. the question of what or who is going to fill that vacuum is what the isis strategy is. everyone know that is isis is, you know, we know how to get rid of them. we know what the options are, military, drones, all those things. the vacuum they are leaving is one the russians are happy to fill, the syrians and arraign yans are happy to fill. if the united states is at least considering not arming the syrian rebels f the strategy is, in this proxy war, the united states is stepping back, we need
really, anderson, we re trying to use physical destruction to create a mental effect. a mental effect in the mind of assad and in the minds of the arraign yans as well. if this is a short duration assault conducted by stand-off weapons, air or sea launched cruise missiles. i m a 39-year air force veteran. the last thing i want to do is suggest we put american airmen in harms way. but if our message is to show resolve and our response is to use only stand-off weapons for a short period of time and not put americans at risk, i think we re sending a decidedly mixed message. fran, do you agree with that? i do agree with that. i said from the beginning, look, i understand the idea of using stand-off weapons not having u.s. personnel flying jets that could get shot down if captured? right.
steve, the point the saudi arraign yans have already talked about that in fact, the foreign intelligence chief of saudi arabia, i quote him as saying this is to preserve our regional security. it requires that we work to create a real balance of forces and to be ready for any possibility in relation to the iranian nuclear file. so clearly the saudis are reacting to what they feel fear is going to be a bad deal. when you let iran raise in the middle east we re going to get this deadly nuclear arms possible holocaust, the saudis are developing a bomb, egypt has made a deal with russia and you know the turks are going to do the same thing. it s only a matter of time that the bad guys, terrorists are going to get it. this is a disaster in the making, u.s. weakness dee gets disaster. emac, when you think of what s going on in the middle east, you add nuks to that, the iranians are in prak after we