didn t just sweep in and defeat the iraqi army. they went home because they lost faith in their government and that s a political problem in iraq today that allowed the rise of isis. but what was the president s response? he sent 500 military trainers to baghdad. you don t fix iraqi politics by training iraqi troops. i think the military pieces got to be part of the solution. there are a lot of isis guys who frankly need to be killed and that s the only way to defeat them. unless we have a political centr strategy to make sure we have a plan in place to fill the vacuum that will be left after we defeat isis, then this that s not a long testify term solution. this example, maybe it makes sense but let s come up with a plan to understand who will take the place and take over that oil infrastructure once we get isis out. then we can have a better idea whether it makes sense as a shorter term military strategy. a lot of people make the point when the u.s. went to iraq to get rid of sad
time. well, i think this is an example of where it s very hard to have a specific military strategy without a broader political strategy, without a plan for what s going to take the place of isis after we defeat the military. it s the political vacuum that s kpils existed in the civil war and allowed isis to sweep into iraq. that s the fundamental problem. we can defeat isis military but unless we have a political plan for the aftermath, we ll find ourselves back in iran again five years after today s action just like it s five years after president obama pulled the last troops out. are you saying the president, the obama administration does not have a political strategy in place? i don t think we have a serious enough political strategy. we ve been leading with bombs and troops. if you think about what happened when isis had this dramatic expansion from syria into western and northern iraq, they
we ve got breaking news coming into the situation room. just now the u.s. state department has issued a worldwide travel alert warning american citizens around the world that they face a terror threat. let s bring in our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director, cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd, former cia official and michael weiss, senior editor at the daily beast, coauthor of the book isis inside the army of terror. tom, i ve got the worldwide alert right now. possible risks of travel due to increased terrorist threats and then go into specifics mentioning al qaeda, mentioning isis, boko haram, other terrorist groups. people are getting ready to travel for thanksgiving, for christmas, this is going to scare a lot of people.
see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. following breaking news french authorities say a possible explosive vest has been found in a garbage can just outside paris. the vest reportedly contains the same type of explosives used in the paris attacks and may be linked to the missing suspect salah abdelsalam. our experts are back to discuss these late breaking developments. michael weiss, an isis video just released this weekend is the first time we re now seeing isis inside raqqah, their so-called capital, the caliphate since the french air strikes began. these renewed french air strikes, you say this is propaganda to pay closest attention to, why is it so important? wolf, these guys always like to turn their defeats into moral victories. i recall during the battle of fallujah in 2004 even though aqi, al qaeda in iraq, which was
but if that happens, what have we achieved? are they prepared to hold the territory and take over administratively where isis left off? that s the missing point here. i would ask what is the mission of our 50 special forces going in there? are they going to force a transition from assad s leadership or over throw him? these are fundamental questions to give our troops the guidance we need and make sure we have a real plan for defeating isis not just in the short term but long term, as well. you also need not only a strategy and plan, an exit strategy down the road as well and what i m hearing from you congressman, correct me if i m wrong, you re not hearing any of that. i m not. i m not hearing nearly enough. the fundamental thing that led to the rise of isis and al qaeda are political vacuums in the middle east. it s a political vacuum that