depende diplomatically. do we need to fight back for those cities that americans shed their blood on, mosul, ramadi, fallujah, tikrit? three things, we need to be arming and training and working with the kurds. they ve had great success in kabani. they re defending christians and other religious minorities. secondly, we have sunni allies that are willing to help us if they thought we were commit today victory. they don t want to go in there and beat isis to help assad and iran. remember the famous red line. it meant nothing and to them that had consequences. this president is the only commander in chief who tells our enemies what we won t do. he says three year deadline, no ground troops. why in the world would we put political handcuffs on? give me a plan for victory, it s wrong to send troops in harm s way without the resource and support, and the plan they need to get the job done.
necessarily support the kurds, not support any particular faction. but what i also discovered was it s a wide spectrum of people that are going over to join the anti-isis fight. you have people like matthew gardner in australia and who went to join the ypg in syria and support the kurdish fight against isis in kabani. you ve got a lot of permercenaries looking to make a business out of this war. then the ex american g.i.s looking to go over and do something. but i have to say that primarily that kind of decision doesn t actually seem like it s addressing the fundamental problems of the sectarian war in iraq. some of these mers narscenaries want to go over and fight with a christian element and add another element into it. others are going into a new war that created this war in the
isis is in control of kabani. the recent reports coming out of there show that that is not the case at all. there have been recent reports from the bbc and the washington post about the situation at the air base during the war it was one of the largest u.s. bases in iraq and now it s the iraqi s army last stand. it s almost under daily attacks from both isis and other groups. there s an estimated 300 american add visors that are reportedly stationed there. what do you anticipate the u.s. response to be if and when there are any american casualties on the ground? i think the u.s. will step up not turn down activities.
the front lines of the fight against isis and syria, a view you have not seen. nick walsh and the border in syria to have battle to save the city of kabani. here s a first look. reporter: we ve been taken down this street to the eastern front lines. to protect them from snipers and media, two of the female ypg fighters escorting us down there and this is near the eastern front where there s been much more aintense fighting. speaking to how much of the city is controlled and you see here, quite remarkable devastation caused by the explosives used.
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