that seems like an easy if you have fix. i m not sure that s what happened. you certainly see a lot of isis forces taking on the weapons and the ammunitions left behind. i think it s a distribution problem. again, that s a part of command and control. you have to take the logistics you receive and make sure the soldiers get them. i don t know what exactly happened on the ground ifn that particular case. but bullets weren t enough for cars driving into the cities even the bulldozers you can t fight those off with aq-47s. you have to have larger caliber weapons. that a part of the problem. so it s an operational, strategic and certainly a tactic am issue there. peter, it s also a political issue. so what s thenceer if. i think we will see more of people to have the u.s. have spotters on the ground. one of the problems is although we have aircraft. a lot of times they re not hitting anything because they don t have good targets. the only way to hit targets is
to have americans on the ground to call in the strikesful that s what some of the iraqis want. the obama administration has been resisting it. i think the pressure is likely to grow. what would the spotters look like? how many would we need and will this turn this around? i keep hearing this we need more special operators, those could help if they were coordinated the right way. you can t truthfully put an air force spoter on the ground with a force not able to coordinate their activities. what will happen is the guys on the ground say hit that target over there. you have to clear that target before you bring the airplanes in. that s a part of the problem. you don t know who the friends and enemies are out there. that has to come from the command and control once again. same thing with special operators, dumping a bunch of special operators sfloo theinto the mix isn t going to do much. how do you coordinate better than what we ve seen? again it goes to peter s
to fight against isis. those forces themselves don t have faith in the iraqi government they are fighting for. this is a heart of the military problem. meaning they don t have the per convenience because philosophically they are fought aligned? right. they may not like isis but they don t believe the iraqi government actually represents them and the iraqi government which is dominated by shias has also not been willing to support to give a lot of support to these sunni forces we are relying on. so ash carter can talk about this as a military problem lacking the will to fight. it s basically at the root a political problem that iraq doesn t have a national unity identity right now that can ban together against isis. what do you think of that theory? peter is exactly correct, alisyn. but there is more to it in the ramadi situation. they have actually been fighting pretty hard out there for the last 12-to-18 months the iraqi security forces along with some of the tribal members, b
so now they ve had that information, you can go back and look in terms of i.p. addresses and other things like that to further identify that individual. people that they speak to. people who speak to them. one of the things security guards were very worried about after they shot the gunman is sometimes they were explosive. what did they do to make sure that didn t happen. they were trying to sequester people into a room in case something was going to blow? again, we can t stop something like that from happening. i m certain they had to diffuse the bomb right? the bomb squad. i m sure they had bomb sniffing dogs in the area. so once you are alerted to something that seems problematic, do you begin to work to diffuse that situation? so thankfully they anticipated. they were ready. everyone was in place. they had a plan. they worked it. peter, what is the message here, can the united states no one ever hold a contest about
with ice sis. thank you for that perspective. let s turn to a retired sergeant for more than 20 years of policing experience peter barnhart, cnn political commentator. you heard from our reporter. rocky police were prepared. they said they were prepared. how can they ever prepare for something that looks like it could have been a political terrorist attack? you can always prepare. so obviously, they had an idea that maybe something could go on. they wanted to have logistically the things that go in place to help them. right? you can t prepare for every event weight. you don t know what the suspect knows. you can only react. hopefully in a proactive way, right? they had people fixed outside. they fixed that would be obviously the point of entry, they were prepared. when they heard gunfire, they killed these two gunmen. it seems very effective what they were able do because i