ambassadors in the region to close down that portion of the border and that part of the border that that you have delineated and also, it is incumbent on the assad regime to stop trading with isis on the fuel, because isis needs the hard currency to continue to recruit and pay the fighters. and remember, that isis pays the recruits that they get from all over the world, and that is one of the sources of money to do it. and i know that the u.s. is frustrated to do it, and many of the moderate arab sunni states like jordan, saudi arabia, and the uae, and qatar, they stopped their direct involvement in going after isis in syria. i don t believe there have been any air strikes from these countries since august if you will, and what is happening on this front? well, this is another topic of our conversation was the necessity for those in the region to step up their
supporting bashar al assad s rejeem, and fighting the rebels. they have had some success against raqqah, the so-called caliphate, but the u.s. would like to see them going after all areas of isis. and we did hear from bashar al assad in a rare interview basically blaming turkey, the saudis, and the qataris for the isis strength. listen to this. you need to fortify in defeating them, you have to fortify and cut their suppliesu the armaments and the monies and the recruits from turkey, and with the support of saudi and qatar, and this is what you do when you are attacking them on the ground, but the problem is that we are fighting the terrorists, but they have unlimited supply, and unwarranted supply from many countries and mainly with the support or overlooking of the
heard about and the changes in the special operation forces should be able to bring more good and discrete targets to the table for our bombers to hit. so, yes, we will need additional capacity. all right. so he is talking about what the u.s. is doing, and what is nato doing to fight isis in syria? well, nato is composed of the member country, and so nato is relying on intelligence from the united states and other nato members, and then it is standing behind the scenes, and nato is concerned about air defense umbrella throughout nato, including the the air defense umbrella over turkey, but nato does not have any independent force, and so phil breedlove is expressing the frustration of all of us in air campaign, you run out of targets. it is very hard to get the targets. when we were striking kosovo and serbia ya in 1999, the biggest problem was actually what are we
go going to strike. you can t just start dropping bombs on the empty forest or something. so you have to have the intelligence on the ground. that s one of the things that this the additional increment of forces from the pentagon should be able to help with. a nato ally france was just attacked by isis, and these terror attacks in paris, and shouldn t nato respond and as an organization as it did after the u.s. was attacked on 9/11 and nato went into afghanistan, went after the taliban and went after al qaeda, and shouldn t nato be doing the same thing now as opposed to m.i.a., missing in action? well, this is requiring the major power to call on nato, and right now we have not done that. and what happened after the 9/11 attacks, a nato member nation came to say we would like to declare article 5 so that we
against eisis. in the uk, lawmakers are in the middle of a marathon 10 1/2-hour session on whether the british planes should be used to bomb isis targets in syria, and the fiery debate revealing a divided parliament. they want to attack us again and again and the question for us, to we answer the call of the allies, the closest friends in the world, the french and the americans who want us to join with them and arab partner s s the work or do we ignore that call? the public opinion is moving increasingly against what i believe to be an ill-thought out rush to war. and he want ts to hold this vot before the opinion grows even further against it. and jer germany also debating an important role, but not combat role. and now, out of washington