booby traps especially? it has, yes. the local anbar council, the group of governors from the local area, estimates 80% of the city has been destroyed. we know that whenever isis takes over a place like this, the leave hundreds and hundreds of booby traps. one report of a school said every single desk in the school hat ieds attached to it. they do that to slow down the government forces trying to retake control, but it creates a real bloody mess and makes it very slow and painful to retake the territory. let s look beyond ramadi. new jersey a fallujah still under isis control. itself is, and it s a terrible place to fight. the u.s. in reaps went in there several times, managed to clear it and hold it but we have since lost it, and so what you see is that this is the nature of insurgency warfare, isis can retreat from a given piece of the map but if they still control surrounding regions and
society no matter who wins. chris: and now, afghanistan, we talk about american soldiers in harm s way and we still have 90,000 troops and well get down to 60,000 by the end the summer and the president has a timeline to get all of the forces out in 2 1/2 years and you and other credit ins of the president say you should not have the timeline. we need more time to help train the afghan forces so they can stand up and defend themselves. my question: who is training the talibanst they do not seem to need 10 years of training to fight? why do our allies need 10 years of training? guest: for a variety of reasons, insurgency warfare does not require the training of a regular military of a counterinsurgency but the taliban believe that we are leashing. the president has announced withdrawal after withdrawal. and the president has overridden the recommendations of his military commandser whose he has