we don t know why they start shooting this day, when they may have seen. isis are few in number here they say, but willing to die and have a sniper nearby. joining me now onset, retired u.s. army general. a pleasure. an honor to have you on. while storming ramadi you have isis storming also sent troops to beiji. so you have this distraction, diversionary tactic happening. so from a battle perspective, do the iraqi military guys do they have what it takes to split up like that or should they just stop pause, and focus on one city? well it s a timeless tactic to split your forces and make the other opponent your opponent divert his forces. so you can have a main effort. vuk you can have a supporting effort. the main effort needs to be the most important thing you re doing. you want all your air power,
if they say oppose it. let me go back to the congressman. i want to direct it more pointedly at you. as long as they say, you have an individual right to a gun. vuk you can have a gun for any reason you want to. you can spend all the money you want in a campaign because you got it. and once the court ruled that way, people like hillary clinton and you go you can t blame me. we passed mccain feingold, we did our bid, and the courts overruled us. i ll tell you how you can blame. you can blame the republican majority in congress for not passing the disclose act. when that supreme court decision, which was an insidious and corrosive decision that is destroying democracy, but when that decision was made the supreme court actually said we expect that congress will require that these contributions not be secret, that they be disclosed. how democrats offered the disclose act that would require transparency, that would require that these secret donors tell people who they are. and it was re
and how are have we got on against the taliban? we haven t won, and we are not going to win against insurgencies because they don t play against a rule book. we play by the geneva conventions, the international criminal code. these guys don t. they use ieds. we ve also got airpower. america and uk vuk some of the most sophisticated air power in the world. they ve been built over years of fighting. you can t just replace an army in iraq and expect them to be able to go against an incredibly sophisticated enemy without airpower, without the experience we ve got. we can t do it, so how can we expect them to do? it? region regionally, and this is important as well, we re not joining the dots foreign policy-wise in the region. we ve got to understand more about the commonalities lather than the differents. we ve heard in the papers today that america are starting to consider talking to iran about the sunni problem. iran are investing in mez bow