cnn political commentator and a former adviser to president reagan. and anushe hussein, a muslim-american journalist and editor in chief of lanushe s point.com. thank you for being here tonight. hello poppy again. good to have you here. let me begin with you. let s just look at the totality of who is banned when we talk about specifically syrian refugees given the civil war. take a look at this. these are two welknown disturbing images, one of aylan kurdi, that young toddler who died washed up on the turkish beach after his family fled syria and on the other side of the screen is omar dakneesh. his family s home in aleppo was bombed. he lost family members. there he sits bloodied in an bloons. these are victims of the civil war in syria. these are victims who will not be allowed in this country. do you believe that these children could terrorize the united states? poppy, this is an excellent question. i want to hold up to you a headline from the new york
statistics, there s some reason to be concerned, particularly when we consider that half of all the refugees are children. what can be done to alleviate their suffering and make their lives more bearable an maybe bring more education into their live so this doesn t become a lost generation? absolutely. i think there are many needs, for children. lebanon, specifically, we re looking at the approaches and child protection programming which i work in, but also other services, looking at shelter, education, and et cetera. i think what s specifically child programming, it s very important to look at creating stability among children who have been affected by the crisis in syria and have fled syria and now are facing a hard condition after three years of being
the air base. and f-15 rz are on their way. and then there is this rapid response force to be based in northern iraq that is able to provide assistance and emergency management for a variety of groups including the iraqi army. so any way you look at it, it s an intensified military campaign and deeper u.s. military involvement. can you call it a shift. you can call it a change. either way, it s more engaged. and when you have the a-10s and f-15s additional ones coming into turkey and there will presumably be operating within syria, what is different is that the russians are in syria now. and they have been, you know, bombing areas. they re part of the united states allied groups opposed to isis. this could be very complicated. it could be much that s why
and jose, the reason for all this is not very complicated. it s pretty simple. after more than a year of nearly 8,000 air strikes, there had been advances against isil but they re a long way. and senior military officials just don t see the opportunity to destroy and defeat isil which is, in fact, president obama s goal in all of this. they re training and equipment, training and equipping friendly syrian forces, but even they are not in the position to overwhelm the isis enemy forces in iraq and syria. so they re look forg a game changer and hoping that providing more support including special operations forces working, fighting side by side with some of the allies in iraq and syria, primarily kurds for the time being, but they hope that that can be the kind of game changer. and they re looking to instill some confidence on the part of
happening because of the stepped up diplomacy. there is a twin track effort, you might say, by the united states to try and do more militarily at the same time that at the negotiating table with all the key players involved, the united states, syria, russians, of course, and now the iranians and the saudis as well because all those actors, the key actors are in one room hopefully, presumably in vienna, that s the other reason that military steps are happening. and here it s a very, very sensitive issue w he hope to hear more today and also from secretary kerry in vee yaen later thlat vienna. jim, semantics aside, this is a shift. there are now going to be americans closer to possibly being in harm s way.