we are duty pound to support and even supporting refugees and to deal with taking assad out and taking isis out. and in 45 days [ applause ] 45 days ago i gave a speech at the reagan library with a strategy to do just that. and watch the shows and this will all happen and we ve created a mess and the mess was hard to deal with and we made it worse by our lack of leadership and the strategy starts by creating a serious alternative to both isis and assad. a sunni-led but a multiethnic, multireligious group with the support of the neighborhood,
we know the real business takes place, that s not on the agenda. it s all, diplomats tell me, syria. it s the crisis now. if you listen to what president rouhani told you and what president putin said on cbs news the other night, it s clear even though there is lip service paid to phasing assad out, he s not going anywhere soon. take a listen to president putin. . translator: we support the legitimate government of syria and any actions to the contrary to destroy the legitimate government will create a situation you can witness now in the other countries of the region or in other regions. for instance, in libya. where all the state institutions are disintegrated. we see a similar situation in iraq. there s no other solution to the syrian crisis than strengthening the effective government
as commander-in-chief i ll rebuild the military, we ll win this war. we ll get a regional army together. there is nobody left in syria to train. president obama screwed this up. the next president needs to be clear as to what they will do. i intend to destroy isil. there will be a ground component coming from the region. we are going on the ground and destroy isil and the caliphate and raqqa and push assad out. and if you can t say that you are not ready for this job. bill: you heard about the controversy with ben carson. you said i meant exactly what i said. i could never support a candidate for a candidate for
yet, he stood with a bunch of generals with earned medals on their chests and there are many others who also have done amazing work and he thanked them as he should have but the pieces that need to be filled out are the political pieces we have just discussed. i was very pleased to hear him say that syria needs to transition to a pluralist government without assad. it s very clear that assad has to go. now, i guess our play is that the people in syria need to push assad out. we re not going to do it. i can make some arguments in favor of that but bashir does have to go. let s get our heads around that. that will help our recruiting effort to get and train in folks on the ground. it s not a priority but it should be a priority is one of my points. the second thing is social media. if we don t get ahead of the game on social media and understand how people are recruited and how their heads are turned we re never going to get ahead of this problem. that s what s going to keep
we believe the path to develop that is the syrian opposition. reporter: it s a high-risk job for 400 u.s. military trainers. what is more prevalent is an insider threat that either isis infiltrates and has fighters inside that then turn on u.s. forces. reporter: once trained on small arms and tactics to defend their towns, will the rebels return home to fight assad and not isis? that s what jordan and turkey still want to happen. they have been beating their drums about this for several years. they believe, if we remove assad, this will really help the situation throughout the region. reporter: the u.s. also wants assad out, but isis is now the most immediate target. the pentagon believes the rebels will fight locally. officials say they still must find a way to protect them back