served four tours in iraq. thank you very much for your time here tonight. it s good to be here. so you ve spent some time four tours in iraq. you were are talking again about an organization, isis that started out by fighting mostly marines in iraq. do marines need to go back and fight this group again? no one seems to have the stomach for that. well, look, no one wants to put troops back into the middle east, but i ve been clear for some time that will isis is a national security threat to the united states and we need to have a serious long-term and comprehensive strategy to defeat isis. just like the colonel said, this is not just about the tactics, not about just killing the troops on the ground, the isis fighters although that is important dropping bombs and training opposition fighters. we have to have a long-term political solution to occupy occupy these political vacuums into which isis has grown. until we have that piece of the
that s the point. what a difference one event can make. look what s going on in the united states right now. politicians calling for a heavy military force on the ground in syria. . calling to not let any syrian refugees in. obviously, what happened here is certainly reverberating in the united states. we have martin savidge on that. we ll talk to him later as one of the threats of this massive story. coming up, we have to explore the revenge. france. dropping bombs on isis as the french president says they are at war. but he also says he will be meeting not only with president obama, but also vladimir putin to join forces. our question is what does that look like? also ahead here on cnn, u.s. officials are concerned the terrorists planned attacks using sony playstation. how? you re watching cnn s special live coverage. we ll be right back. the future belongs to the fast.
the best way to do it is go. drop bombs somewhere. the president was trying to approach it from a different way saying there are lines of effort in this fight. there is certainly the continued effort against isis in syria and iraq. there s an attempt at building up forces to fight that effort on the ground. there s an attempt to build a coalition that says across the board this is an evil organization and we must put it to rest. there s an attempt to to stop the flow in and out of the borders of syria through the borders of turkey. there s an attempt to get information playing a part in this campaign and stop pg the ideology that contributes to it. the president, who has been fighting this war for a long time, is saying there s a lot more to this than just. dropping bombs and we have to come together on all the things that will eliminate terror. he was asked a a couple questions from different members of the media. he almost seemed to get
for mr. trump. i would remind folks that less than 1% of the american population has served in the military. even a fewer percentage of the population has served in these kind of areas so you just don t know what it s like. when other countries are under conflict, under siege like this, it s hard, extremely hard, to reestablish both their economic and their industrial capacity once they re bombed. there are people living there. there are 11 million people in iraq where the oil fields are. not all of them are sigs supporters. in fact, very few are. when you re talking about dropping bombs, first of all, have you to have targets to drop bombs on. it s an applause line for people who have never been there or see what it s like. you think that history would give us a clue, right? because we went into baghdad. we overthrew saddam hussein. we re good at that. the u.s. military is great at
i think that s more realistic. but he s still behind and still up against a very formidable organization. i think you ll hear the arguments that you heard at the j.j. dinner in which he started to draw very stark contrasts with hillary clinton, although he didn t name her, on a number of issues on which he was on one side and she was on the other. some of which she s now on his side. but he s pitching consistency, reliability, telling people that they can have faith that he ll always be on the side that he has taken. and this is going to be, i think, fundamental to his message going forward. david axelrod, thank you so much. great to be with you. in our world lead omission creep, president obama, the man who wanted to end two wars, is now considering putting u.s. troops much closer to the front lines in iraq and syria. does this mean the u.s. is losing, after years of a year of dropping bombs on terrorists? that story next.