they don t have the combat power to take baghdad. what they are achieving, they don t need baghdad. what they re achieving is a huge amount of territory they can claim, and they will declare it an islamic state of whatever at some point when they re able to consolidate their power. now, we have the means to stop this. this is not an impregnable force. how do we stop it, very quickly. well, the president is taking a step in the right direction with intelligence advisers. if he is putting them in there to set the conditions to use the iraqi army to conduct a counteroffensive against them, aided by air strikes and also aided by clandestine special operation forces, then we re on the right path. if he s not doing it for those reasons we re on the wrong path. thanks so much for sharing your insight. coming up, war on isis and how their leard once threatened an ç
into baghdad. they don t have the combat power to take baghdad. what they are achieving, they don t need baghdad. what they re achieving is a huge amount of territory they can claim, and they will declare it an islamic state of whatever at some point when they re able to consolidate their power. now, we have the means to stop this. this is not an impregnable force. how do we stop it, very quickly. well, the president is taking a step in the right direction with intelligence advisers. if he is putting them in there to set the conditions to use the iraqi army to conduct a counteroffensive against them, aided by air strikes and also aided by clandestine special operation forces, then we re on the right path. if he s not doing it for those reasons we re on the wrong path. thanks so much for sharing your insight. coming up, war on isis and how their leard once threatened an american. i ll see you in new york.
the combat power to take baghdad. i think the force will be able to gather intelligence, used in our technologies and pass that to iraqis and make on the ground assessments to help with planning and with a device but it s only the beginning. we truly need more of a commitment. some say their presence could help with air strikes if that s the road that we would like to go down. what do you think is the strategic vision for iraq? if we were to do anything more, what do you think the american people need to know about what the goal is? i think what we ve always wanted for iraq remains the same. that is a stable and secure iraq that is moving towards a mature democracy and they re in the fledging stage of that and is pro-west and has a relationship with the united states. i think division now has changed. we have to recognize the threat of isis and what it means not just to iraq but to the region and to the united states and to europe and as a result of that,
they can t take baghdad and will not drive the government out of iraq, but what they have taken already, they are absolutely content to have a line of division in iraq and to keep what they currently own. that will be a threat to iraq and neighbors of the united states and europe. it goes without saying this is a national security threat to the united states. martha: good to see you. good talking to you, martha. bill: news breaking in washington on the nfl. the campaign to change the washington redskins name gaining momentum. the u.s. patent office say the trademarks must be cancelled. the team can keep the name while they appeal, but who knows how long that could take. she can now play girls twice her age.
there is a breakout of isis where it looks as if it s going to take baghdad, then i think we would be compelled to do something even prior to reconciliation. crocker said secretary kerry should be on the plane to baghdad. i don t know if he s taken the job or not. but somebody of authority, and i would leave out the vice president should be on the plane right now and working on that. and issue pronunsment of the white house. that will have no effect since we have no leverage. steve, it was announced the other day, it s like a 3d chess game. a lot of different parts. the kurds, meantime, are getting ready to really call for independent state. and now they have the backing of the turks, the turkish. yeah. this is where charles is right, we should be doing basically anything we can do to avoid what i fear it s going to be. if you think looks bad on the ground in iraq right now, wait