simply going to continue and expand. judge jeanine: do you think, colonel hunt, that this feckless policy of the white house and the obama administration is jeopardizing us this this country as well? how is it that we continue to send our troops over there. i mean is there a morale problem? we have a tired problem. the military is exhausted. this is 11 years of military combat. the military families and effects on the veterans administration. yes, it would affect the military. a policy we are talking about a no fly zone and missiles in jordan. judge jeanine: what is the significance of the no fly zone? the significance is american jets, american logistics. american intelligence and missiles inside jordan. that would be how we would support a no-fly and you have a chance of knocking down a russian aircraft or doing what happens once you do no-fly the next step are boots on the ground.
the resources to monitor someone are pretty extensive. all that means is you reached a bar sufficient to say, when you come to the airport, well talk to you and look through your bags and in a few cases, you won t get on the plane. even above the list that tamerlan was on, not necessary lit no-fly or the one where you get the secondary screening at the airport, what does that with the 420,000 people, the tide list, what does that mean? you have to put things into two bu two buckes to the make it simpler. the first is who may or may not get on the plane. the second is the analytic list. you are following people. you want a sent rl repository of names, dates of birth, where they travel, et cetera. that is not a watch list. that s more research where you can compile everything you know of people that might be of concern. phillip, when you were overseeing the counterterrorism center, what are the sort of discretionary calls that people
to be able to engage our planes from a distance. our planes would be doing it from a standoff distance. you wouldn t have to penetrate the air space, you could do it from the outside. the fact is that would be again a kind of no-fly on the cheap. there s a reluctance to arm the opposition because of the problems we re now experiencing with the qataris and other who is are arming groups that clearly have al qaeda connections. there s no doubt about that. there s always been a concern about if you give arms, you can t be certain about where the arms end up and who they get used against. it s a completely legitimate concern. by the same token. you have a balance of forces among the opposition. if the islamists are the only ones who are getting arms and money. then by definition, they re the ones more likely to emerge. you have to decide are you going to try to influence the balance of forces, balance of power among the opposition groups? do you want to have influence on the landscape
something with regard to no-fly, that may allow you to have some influence. and i think we certainly want to have some influence on the outcome in syria. bottom line in a couple of seconds, which of those options would you take? or would you take both? the no-fly zone on the cheap, and arming rebel groups? the first thing i would do is i would address the syrian public, the need to protect them and i would focus more on standoff capabilities for no-fly. thank you very much. dennis ross. president obama had plenty of barbs for the press and as well for himself on saturday night s so-called nerd prom and he also had praise for one of our own, just watch. when their communities and the wider world needed them most, they were there. making sense of events that might at first blush seem beyond our comprehension. that s what great journalism is and that s what great journalists do. and that s why for example, pete williams new nickname around the nbc news room is big papi.
i think the most simple thing we can do and we have to make this a number one issue as a test vote and then take it into the election that is if you re on the no-fly list because you re known as maybe a possible terrorist you cannot buy a handgun in america. that s rahm emanuel in 2007 calling for what s been known in gun safety circles as a no-fly, no-buy policy. there s bills introduced in congress and on a certain level it makes sense. if you can t get on a plane why would we let you buy a handgun. what do you think of that kind of policy? it s beabject silliness. to think americans are made safer by precluding americans placed on no-fly lists by unknown fbi agents to have never had to explain themselves to