the quds force is considered a hostile force to the u.s. military to u.s. intelligence, it sees itself as hostiles and sees it as hostile. these are not friendly forces. we will be here as well and already here as well advising the iraqi military. we have got a lot of people who want to drive this ship. richard, one of the themes of war sometimes, you talk about deconflicting. but what you re getting at is what you might call the political side of deconflicting. have you spoken to any of the u.s. forces about how it is they would work with the iraqis against isis, at the same time, not work with the iranians against isis who, by the way, were on opposite side once you cross over the border into syria? reporter: yeah. it gets very tricky when you get when they actually get here in larger numbers and try and do this. because the country they are coming back to, u.s. military
problem and he gets out of the way but i don t think that is going to be realistic. one of the things you keep hearing is i guess joe biden might have been more right about this than anybody gave him credit for five years ago, six, seven, excuse me, seven or eight years ago. i think it was longer than that. you look, mark halpern, what is going on, the only play where stability is the northern area where the kurds stepped in and they are taking care of things. you wonder if the saudis will start helping in the west. one of the hardest pieces to try to settle this down is i don t think the quds having any incentive to be a part of the government. that is a new country. what is the deal with the iraqi army? we spent years and a lot of time in resources training them. they are holding baghdad for now but why is it such a weak force? i think the same situation as afghanistan. without air support, if you re up against an al qaeda
sum bowlism that matters and the idea that each child is so precious that, you know, getting bruised is the worst thing that is going to happen to you. toughen up, son. actually, life is a tough place and getting knocked around a little bit is not bad for you. look at these pictures. these guys are not the linebackers that we see today. i don t know if these uniforms and helmets can keep up with the guys and their weight and, you know, they are huge. these guys are running at each other and slamming their heads into one another. this is just high school intermural high school football. these aren t monsters. they are not on steroids. they are just playing football. you have quds, what do you say to your sons if they wanted to go out and play contact football. that s crazy. if you think that s hard. wait until you get full-time job as adult. get more concussions at work than you will there. yeah. let us know what you think, friends@foxnews.com. weigh in at ff weekend. le
administration now do? because many people will say hey, we can t really attack them militarily or can we? what s the answer? well, the answer is, gretchen, unfortunately, they re going to get a lot of this, you know, our secretary of state and our president are very good at shaking this fist and telling them that this just will not stand. well, unfortunately, you know, our enemies understand that. every third world country around the world understands that there will be no repercussions. what should happen? if president reagan was in there, i assure you, i am confident in telling you, it would be a message on a very, very large scale and it would not be one or two rockets into an aspirin factory. iran is looking at our outstretched hand as a sign of weakness, clearly. the boldness in which they do this and the tepid denials but we know where the quds force bases are. we know exactly what they re doing. they re training iranians to go kill americans today. they ve been doing it for
version of the military intelligence group has been responsible for putting weapons systems into iraq to kill u.s. soldiers. we know that. it s also been responsible for actions in afghanistan to help kill u.s. soldiers there. they re supporting hezbollah, we know that. they ve taken adverse action in bahrain so they re very active and very aggressive. this operation was $1.5 million. and that was and it was external to the country of iran. all of that has a chain of command. so some notion that this was one guy in the irgc or the quds force making this decision in the basement of the of their intelligence center was wrong and laughable on its face. this is pretty serious stuff. congressman, here s my question to you. a lot of people might think, ok, usama bin laden is dead. maybe we re taking off the head of al-qaida but here comes iran. i mean, the idea that they were going to do this on u.s. soil, what does that say to you? they ve become more brazen, gretchen, this is the m