the military fight, bleed and die, why? so football players and others will have the opportunity. in the case of football players, to make millions of dollars for playing a sport on sundays. members of the military put everything on the line every single day for all of our freedoms. they don t do it for the money, they don t get paid a lot on average. privates make $40,000 a year. foot pal players on average make .2.4 million a year. the guys in the military don t do it for recognition but they love the country and willing to fight and die defending the country and they fight under that flag. you know what at a bare minimum every single american should stand with their hand over their hearts during the national anthem and honor them. the veterans, active duty military members, do they not deserve that honor? is showing respect to the military, is that really too much to ask? and as i ve been saying, until
posed a great danger to south korea and regions in japan for a number of years. they have a number of weapons pointed directly at south korea. they could kill thousands quickly if a military fight were to break out. they could fire a missile with a warhead fire it here in tokyo. whether it could be shot down effectively hashas yet to be determined. and north korea has not yet done that. they have not used these conventional weapons. even at times a very conventional weapon. the reason they have not done this is they re not designed because they want to attack the united states and south korea and japan. they are designed to prevent them from being attacked. they re to keep the regime firmly in control and they believe this nuclear tee ternt is their key to stability and their key to eventually sit at the diplomatic table around the world. so just because they con diktded
our strategy is not to just push them into the desert. it is to encircle where isis is and then annihilate them, particularly the foreign fighters. our policy is very clear. any foreign fighter that is in syria or iraq still it is our policy to make sure they can never get out of iraq and syria. they will die there. in mosul the reason the battle is so intense in the last three weeks of that battle because we had hundreds of foreign fighters from all around the world as far away as china that barricaded themselves in the old city in civilian structures wearing suicide vests killing civilians as they tried to leave, but none of those foreign fighters got out. so it is our strategy to make sure they cannot get out. you mentioned interpol but this is very important. interpol is a member of our global coalition. and that s symbolic because this is not just a military fight on the ground in iraq and syria. it s a global coalition. it continues to grow. now has 73 members. we just added four
crazy dictator. ed: these people have been starving for a long time. the chinese are the key and they don t want to play there. that s the reality of it. that s why we are having these discussions. kmele: conversations about trying to find a bold, new approach here. i don t know that there is one. there is the status quo and it exists because of the carnage that could possibly happen. i wonder if what we are seeing from south korea is less hostility to the united states in particular and more specifically a genuine concern that this administration might be more willing to look at the military option. i think the president has at least trying to posture that way. i have no reason to believe that he is actually interested in picking that particular military fight. ed: you have a new president who would like to have better relations with the north. eric: explained to me, and
respects and gives him advice that has moved him in this direction. third of all, he is a human being. he was obviously deeply moved by those pictures as all of us were deeply moved. and finally, to those in the united states who are concerned about getting deeply involved in syria, committing to an ongoing you know, whether it would be a military fight, however that would look, what do you say to them in terms of what the end game would be, who would replace assad. there are a lot of folks who think it could be a quagmire. how do you resolve their concerns? well, i hope we pay attention. we pulled everybody out of iraq. al qaeda moved to syria. al qaeda became isis and assad