going into iraq. there is no plan to destroy isil. there s a plan to hand this to the next president for a year. are you saying, senator the president is not telling us the truth? i am saying the president and t are leading the president obama not president bush. he withdrew all troops from iraq when the military said you need to leave 10,000 behind. three years ago john mccain and lindsay graham and many others said you have to train the free syrian army. those two mistakes led to isil. there is no ground component inside of syria. we need 10,000 americans with 80 or 90,000 arabs. they don t trust us any more. they would trust me if i was president of the united states. nobody is going to follow him. the problem is nobody trusts him. the most dominant force inside of iraq is shi ite militia.
muslims are patriotic americans, those in the united states. i thought that was a very important point, given some of the rhetoric that we re hearing from some of the presidential candidates, the divisive rhetoric. i also thought the president would intensify air struks, continue to deploy special forces into syria. i think all of that is good. it needs to be more intensely applied. we need a stronger coalition, not just a big coalition. a coalition that can actually arm syrian rebel groups, sunni groups on the ground as well as the syrian kurds. because without a ground component, they have to be that ground component as well as the iraqi army, we re not going to defeat this group. isis has spread into libya. as you see, unto rt that thely isis is able to inspire people like the san bernardino couple who decided to kill their co-workers. this is a big fight. it s very complicated. the president was right to give his speech. last night president obama also called on congress to deal
going into iraq. there is no plan to destroy isil. there s a plan to hand this to the next president for a year. are you saying, senator the president is not telling us the truth? i am saying the president and t are leading the president obama not president bush. he withdrew all troops from iraq when the military said you need to leave 10,000 behind. three years ago john mccain and lindsay graham and many others said you have to train the free syrian army. those two mistakes led to isil. there is no ground component inside of syria. we need 10,000 americans with 80 or 90,000 arabs. they don t trust us any more. they would trust me if i was president of the united states. nobody is going to follow him. the problem is nobody trusts him. the most dominant force inside of iraq is shi ite militia.
yazidi refugees are real refugees. young muslim males are not real refugees. they won t fight for their own country and want an economic future anywhere. all the stuff, we would be bigots if we took christians and other minorities, they are the refugees. so it is so politicized at this point we can t do what s right. heather: colonel peters, let s talk a little more about the things that have been politicized, in terms of taking care of isis in syria and iraq and libya alone. at least two senators, mccain, and an lindsey graham are calling for more troops, 20,000 more troops. let s listen to lindsey graham. we don t have enough forces on the ground to deal with mosul. mosul is a very large city in the hands of isil but you can t fix iraq without dealing with syria. there is no credible ground component in syria. so if you don t get syria right, you re not going to fix iraq, now libya. heather: and you say we may need upwards of 50,000 troops there?
administration strategy to fight isis. senator graham, what have you seen on the ground in your past few days and what are you specifically calling for now? okay. some progress i think ramadi, which is in anbar province can be taken back from isil. otherwise, mosul, which is a very large city in iraq is still in isil hands. there s no strategy regarding syria. we had a major industry in libya, a city in libya, the home of khadafy fall into isis hands. there no ground component to destroy isil in syria. if you don t destroy them in syria where the caliphate is headquarter headquartered you don t defeat