their major military vulnerability vulnerability. it plays into the hands of the strength of the united states and our allies to do that in a very aggressive, for overwhelming manner as we have done world war ii korea, and in iraq back in 2004. general, i can tell listening to you that you when you watch these atrocies that are being carried out on the ground children women, people being gunned down i know you say the american people have no idea the depth of what s going down on the ground, i know you feel we could solve this problem. we could protect the people who are going to die tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that and we re not doing it. there s many things we can do. the u.s. has tremendous ability without becoming an occupying force. there s forces in raqqah.
arab and turkish coalition. that is something i believe will happen, but it will be a follow-on to this administration. we don t have to take our time. war is a test of wills and this isis organization, martha territory is everything to them, which means they have to defend it. as much as that is their strength to the world, it is their major military vulnerability vulnerability. it plays into the hands of the strength of the united states and our allies to do that in a very aggressive, for overwhelming manner as we have done world war ii korea, and in iraq back in 2004. general, i can tell listening to you that you when you watch these atrocities that are being carried out on the ground children women, people being
were killing him. we lived with that. i supported the field commanders every time. we no longer have that concern that they have this pawn that they can then play against us. so there s also a military vulnerability that the haqqanis now face, that taliban now faces because they no longer hold one of our u.s. soldiers in captivity. so there s also a freedom to operate against them that perhaps we didn t fully enjoy so long as they held bowe as a prisoner. general boykin, i know that you think these men do pose a threat. when you take on the other question about this, which is do you think the u.s. military now are more at risk for being kidnapped or taken hostage, taken prisoner, however you want to phrase it, because it s clear that the u.s. will make deals obviously to get back their folks? no, candy. there s been a lot of discussion about that.