One of the lessons of the last decade if it has to become pulled with a significant force on the ground. It depends on what your goal is. If youre all is to degrade urgent organization or terrorist group im a drug can be useful with the caveat that of course is very government you have to partner with saying it places a lot of political pressure because it is not popular with the people, but it is still a very useful tool integrating those organizations. Degrading and containing. That is exactly right. That is the problem with the free work when applied in syria because the president has said not only degrade, but destroyed and that goes far beyond anything he has achieved with the same framework in yemen or smalley have. Mary. I agree. Airstrikes are really an important tool and i dont think anybody believes airstrikes should be gotten rid of or drones should be gotten rid of. On its own, attrition will not deal with an insurgency. Most of these countries, that is what we are dealing
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Less. Bottom line up front. Okay . There in the back. Theres microphone so we can all hear you. Thank you. My quick question really here is comments on lebanon and how its impacting this current fight. Nobody seems to talk about it much. Nigel i know just did an article about drone usage by hezbollah, which i thought was interesting. Oh, lebanon. Okay. Yeah. Well, there is a small contingent of militants inside of lebanon who have made some noise for many years, but there are not a lot of them. The number of them particularly down south have been coopted by the government. Ere were fears early on that a lot of this contingent was going to be activated by the war in syria. In fact, the whole society was going to go down the tubes. That is still a worry and the longer that the war goes on the more that worry increases. But i have been really surprised at lebanons resiliency, actually, whether you attribute that to actors we dont like, like hezbollah keeping a lid on things, or whether yo
And a live picture from outside the white house this morning where the president is expected to speak before flying to new york for the u. N. General assembly meeting. Military Officials Say the u. S. Launched eight airstrikes. The military also used air power against Al Qaedaaffiliated group that had imminent attacks plotted against the u. S. The Associated Press is reporting that the u. S. And five arab nations attacked in nighttime raids using land and seabased u. S. Aircraft, as well as tomahawk cruise missiles launched from navy ships in the red sea and the northern persian gulf. Washingtonorts that informed bashar alassads thernment hours before americanled Coalition Counter the extremisthealth strongholds. Again, with four president obama to make remarks on those airstrikes against isis this morning. Wait for the president , we want to let you know that this morning we will take you to the Bipartisan Policy Center look at a new threat assessment report being released by that gro
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