He has served multiple tours in iraq and afghanistan, five tours. and is the recipient of the purple heart silver star and bronze star for valor. he is also the author of the new novel green on blue. i suggest everybody read that. elliott, it s great to have you on the show. we appreciate your service 100 times over. i want to read from your time.com column before we get to the book. sure. i think this concept is fascinating and it should make all of us think. you say, draft the rich. limiting the draft to the children of the wealthiest and most influential americans will stymie a tolerance for perpetual war on the part of critical decision makers. i would propose that draftees be assigned exclusively within the fields of combat arms infantry engineering, career paths by which which by and large have been opened up recently to women and would ensure that no undue influence could be lef rammed to
President obama about whether to gear up for military air strikes against the isis forces. back to you. thank you very much. well, the stakes remain quite high as the drama continues. joining us with reaction and insight, fox news military analyst, lieutenant general tom mcinurney. it s very interesting as we hear advisers heading to iraq, you have situations with the oil refinery under siege at the moment and iraqi soldiers trapped there. what does will these 300 advisers have when you have situations like that going on and the fact that these insurgents have taken over other cities? well, i don t think it will have much difference really. the fact is that they re going to be at high risk of being killed in action, wounded in action or being prisoners of war or, in fact, a green on blue, which we ve seen before. and so the risks are far higher than the returns that they ll get. it s a different iraqi army than
Hagel presented two soldiers with purple hearts. an honor the secretary received twice. secretary hagel met with the new commander of u.s. troops in afghanistan. he s the 15th guy to have that job. after a green on blue attack and then a cancelled transfer over control over an entire prison, secretary hagel left afghanistan early this morning local time. hours later another apparent insider attack. he shot and killed two americans pm one of whom was a green beret. last month the u.s. military led command announced it was wrong when it said taliban attacks
A woman was gang raped and beaten to death on a bus. well, now one of the suspects, the bus driver, is dead. police say he killed himself on monday apparently using his clothes to hang himself in his cell. he was one of five men on trial for the december attack. his parents are claiming he was murdered. in eastern afghanistan this morning, another insider attack so-called green-on-blue, two american soldiers were killed when a gunman wearing an afghan security forces uniform opened fire on a group of nato and afghan service members. ten other u.s. service members were wounded in that same attack. and just this weekend the afghan president hamid karzai accused the united states of colluding with the taliban. he said both sides want to convince afghans that violence will worsen if foreign troops leave the country. those comments coming after a bombing in kabul on saturday
Risk. so they re not going to release the name. gretchen: the rest of the headlines. new details about the terrorist attack in benghazi. records show the state department hired a small british company to provide security at the embassy instead of a large firm that had normally used in danger zones. u.s. officials say the contract with blue mountain group was based on expediency since no one knew how long the mission would remain in benghazi. the guards, 20 men hired in libya, patrolled not with guns, but with flashlights and batons, which would be hard to combat what ended up happening there. a green on blue attack again in afghanistan, leaving a c.i.a. officer dead. the agency not releasing the agent s identity. we know he was 42 years old and a former army officer. the homicide bombing on saturday leaving an american soldier dead, 24-year-old brittany gordon, from st. petersburg, florida. the attack carried out bay uniformed member of afghanistan s intelligence