nobody seems to want to put american combat troops. if isis and iraq and syria is something more like a state, are we kidding ourselves? can this be done without a large infusion of american combat troops? michael liter? i think the answer is no. we may not need the same number when we needed when we first went into iraq, but we need more troops to push the iraqis faster, more than 50 special operations forces in syria to take the fight there, and we have to make clear that they don t stand a chance against us. and right now we are basically playing even, and that helps the movement beyond syria and iraq see that this is an attractive army to fight for in paris you said playing even. you mean that containment line that the president used. absolutely. we are not overwhelming them with force. andrea. congressman mccaul, ben rhodes said we are arming foreign fighters, talking i guess about the peshmerga, but the signature failure has been the failure to stand up to the syria
we have to make clear that they don t stand a chance against us and right now we are basically playing even and that helps the movement beyond syria and iraq see that this is an attractive army to fight for in paris you said playing even, you mean that containment line that the president used. absolutely. we are not overwhelming them with force. andrea? congressman mccall, ben rhodes said we are arming foreign fighters. he s talking i guess about the peshmerga, but the failure has been the failure to stand up the syrian resistance against assad. where do you stand on that? what should the administration do now that paris has happened? doesn t this change the whole equation? i think paris changes everything. it should galvanize it s entire world behind our efforts to defeat and destroy isis, not just to contain them. that s been the policy of this administration has been containment only when the president said that isis has been contained, i would hate to see what isis look
basically playing even and that helps the movement beyond syria and iraq see that this is an attractive army to fight for in. you said playing each and the containment line. absolutely. we are not overwhelming them with force. andrea? congressman mccall, he said we are arming foreign fighters and he is talking about the peshmerga and the failure to set up the syrian resistance against assad. where do you stand on that? what should the administration do now that paris has happened? doesn t this change the whole equation? i think paris changes everything and it s gal zhannizing the entire world to deteet and destroy isis and not just to contain them. that s been the policy of this administration is to contain them. that isis would be contained i would hate to see what isis looks like unleashed. we ve had three major external operations and the latest being in paris and the russian airliner.