d.o.d. has sent those armed peace keepers and trainers to cameroon. to say nothing of the reemergence of al qaeda. you would think all those things happening in afghanistan that the white house, president, might rethink the decision to draw down from u.s. force levels. doesn t look like that will be the case. listen to josh ernest today. it continues to be important. there s no denying that the risk that s posed by those terrorist elements inside of afghanistan is significantly lower than the risks posed by core al qaeda pre- 9/11. draw down will continue? this is part of the policy decision that we announced the
particularly around something like their phone, people want security around that and what law enforcement wants because law enforcement wants the back door in. they want to be able to say we want to be able to see what s happening right now as it happens. but you can t really go in both directions at once. what direction do you see us going, john? i see us going in the direction you re talking about with the coordination. lloyd and cambridge universitys came out with a study saying this would cost us up to $1 trillion with a cyberattack. sorry. having a cyberattack in my ear. we ll protect you, john. we have a lack of coordination among government entities. we have the department of homeland security has their own cyber unit, the pentagon has their own cyber unit and all the intelligence agencies have their own cyber unit much like pre-9/11. the cia and fbi did not have good communeication back and
court instead of military. i think it was a big mistake and i think it represents a fundamental philosophical divide in how we treat the terrorist attacks on the united states. the obama administration really has reverted to the pre-9/11 mode of looking at terrorist attacks as a law enforcement matter, sort of like knocking over the local starbucks, only maybe a little worse. so they view this as a way to prosecute khattala and the others they pick up in a regular criminal trial with full due process protection. i think that s fundamentally wrong. i think the war against terrorism, the war they ve waged against us, should be treated under the law of war. and i think in this case, the bush administration had it right when it opened gitmo to put illegal enemy combatants like khattala in that facility and treat them as they deserved to be. i would, myself, wouldn t be much concerned about trying them in a military tribunal. i think they re prisoners of
i think it was a big mistake and i think it represents a fundamental philosophical divide in how we treat the terrorist attacks on the united states. the obama administration really has reverted to the pre-9/11 mode of looking at terrorist attacks as a law enforcement matter, sort of like knocking over the local starbucks, only maybe a little worse. so they view this as a way to prosecute khattala and the others they pick up in a regular criminal trial with full due process protection. i think that s fundamentally wrong. i think the war against terrorism, the war they ve waged against us, should be treated under the law of war. and i think in this case, the bush administration had it right when it opened gitmo to put illegal enemy combatants like khattala in that facility and treat them as they deserved to be. i would, myself, wouldn t be much concerned about trying them in a military tribunal. i think they re prisoners of war, for as long as the war
now, let s look at question number five. after eight years of war and 4500 u.s. combat deaths in iraq, it s easy to see why some americans are not eager to go back. maybe you think not our problem or to put it even bolder, why should the united states care? let s bring in eli lake, senior national security correspondent for the daily beast. also terrorism expert robert mcfadden and former special agent with the naval criminal investigative service. thank you to both of you again. eli, let s start with you. can you make a case for why americans should care if iraq is consumed by sectarian civil war that some are calling it? well, i think there s a couple cases you can make. the first and most obvious one is that the lesson of the pre- 9/11 years is when fanatic barbarians like isis get a sort of safe haven they re able to plot attacks on western europe and other places so one of the prime objectives of the