comes to iran. he s done things at the behest of the israeli leader. we know israel has equities in iran. i m not sure that we have a steady hand receiving information making these decisions, do you? or truthful hand. i m not sure donald trump is telling the truth about what actually happened. correct. as a tv and mass media guy, donald trump is trying to frame this as one of the defining leadership moments of his presidency when in reality, the president s projection of incompetence and incoherence on the world stage is devastating to our national security interests. this is not the first time that a strike package or a mission package has been changed or aborted. but to your earlier point, it really is the first time in modern political history there has been such transparency about this decision making. if donald trump really did not understand the consequences of the mission that he had pre
wanted to stay away from that because. we feel that s sort of too little too science fiction for us. but it actually opened our eyes as to you know that restriction aside how how much is actually being worked on right now there s just some crazy stuff going on drones in particular. it s fascinating to see where this will go because drones now have these things called mission packages where you can actually autonomously program a drone to go on a mission completely on its own no human interaction needed and this technology exists today. you know the day when you will have a drone that can have a mission package to go somewhere target somebody take them out and then return is
begin with. we need more, frankly and they have to help the kurds. if we put isis under that three after acquisition pressure, we got to start somewhere and put boots into syria. no one seriously thinks 50 u.s. special operations as excellent as they may be will make a difference. not at all and i would, this will sound harsh but i would categorize 50 going in too few and too late but we can still recover but it s certainly going to take more over time. how many more, would you think? at a total mission package to take on, i think you re looking at 10,000 u.s. troops including those in iraq. we have about 4,000 there now. i think over time we re going to have to drive that number up to around 10,000 if we re really going to make a dent. that also works on the assumption that the allies that the united states has, whether iraqi military in iraq, which is very disappointing as we know,
in the east mediterranean and essentially be prepared for a mission package. that s an important characteristic with strike planning and making sure you are able to conduct the mission. the naval forces will be ready as this period of recalculation takes hold. i want you to listen carefully to something was said on fox news sunday to chris wallace. listen up here. i want to read one quote by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey. he said our military force is so degraded and unready it would be immoral to use force. your reaction to that. strong words. strong words and it is an appropriate point to make at this time. we haven t heard it before. my previous captain and one of my lifetime mentors admiral mike mullen mention they had a few years ago. there is a concern that the national economy of the united states was a key national security consideration.