isis leader in afghanistan has been killed. what more do you know? reporter: he s the third isis leader killed this year. so as far as the coalition is concerned, the afghan government who announced this killing about a week ago, that is a battlefield success. but it is a very high contract-headed organization the so-called islamic state. it s not all about what military call the decapitation of the management structures. it is a also trying to get rid of the idea. interestingly, in that regard it s the taliban that have really been doing most of the fighting against the so-called islamic state because they find them a revolting foreign influence as much as they see the americans and others in that context. sam kalee, live in kabul. thank you. to brazil. heart breaking images there today as the country s national museum was destroyed by this. more than 20 million pieces of
stabilization phase? that didn t make sense to me. michael, good catch. i thought that was the most fascinating part of what was a very fascinating press conference by the secretary and general votell. the stabilization phase is what takes place after you ve achieved battlefield success, after you ve taken mosul, after you ve taken raqqah, what do you do to make it less likely you ve got to go back and do it again. it s a wonderful marker that the secretary of defense has put down. i mean on a dark day, you could call the stabilization phase nation building. i m sure the secretary wasn t referring to that. but what he was trying to say, trying to prepare the department, the administration, and frankly i think the american people for, was that you just can t roll through raqqah with armor and go home. you ve got to change the facts on the ground.
achieved battlefield success, after you ve taken mosul, after you ve taken raqqah, what do you do to make it less likely you ve got to go back and do it again. it s a wonderful marker that the secretary of defense has put down. i mean on a dark day, you could call the stabilization phase nation building. i m sure the secretary wasn t referring to that. but what he was trying to say, trying to prepare the department, the administration, and frankly i think the american people for, was that you just can t roll through raqqah with armor and go home. you ve got to change the facts on the ground. otherwise you ve got to go do
applicatio politicians like that. you talk about the action on the battle field helped and crippled him in the white house. you would think they would help each other, if you re a good commander in field, you would be a good commander in chief. i don t think that s necessarily true. battlefield success is not necessary a guarantee for true success as a president. actually i think grant is a better president than he s given credit for. he kept us out of two wars that everybody was keen to fight, both with great britain, because he believed very firmly, like most experienced generals that peace is better and wore is terrible. but above all, grant s underlying personality was to patiently move forward day by day towards the goal that you want to achieve. he was an enormously interesting
this comes as the al qaeda linked insurgent group, isis continues racking up battlefield success in northern parts of iraq. we have following developments live from the israeli-syria border. john? reporter: jon, it is unclear whether secretary of state kerry proposed the idea to prime minister al-maliki to resign from his position, to step down from his post. what is clear is the situation in iraq continues to spiral out of control. nonetheless take a look, secretary of state kerry met with the iraqi prime minister today in a closed-door meeting, about 90-minute meeting. when asked about the meeting kerry quote said, that it was good. the situation we know in iraq is not. at one border crossing iraqi soldiers, this is a big concern, abandoned their posts. sunni isis militants took yet another iraqi town widening their supply lines even more from syria into iraq.