so if america is going to be gambling on this man who has been going back on his word throughout iraq s recent history, then held have to be very careful and make sure that they have another pressure point that they can apply to him and on his government. one of the deep concerns i ve heard from officials here in washington, the president himself mentioned it as he was getting toward board ready to b one, a fear that these isis terrorists will go after shia shrines in iraq. we see iranian elite republican guard troops have moved in to try to help with this problem, other problems, as well. what would happen if these isis terrorists blew up a shiite shrine? well, we saw something like that back in 2005 and 2006 when samarra, the main mosque there,
what about gun ship, air to ground missiles. they could be effective if you have appropriate targets. albeit the terrorists have sort of gone into heavily populated areas. as you know from your experience, this is one of the key tactics of groups like this. when you start talking about a group like isis, it wants to be in population centers wihere thy are surrounded by civilians and sensitive targets, mosques, hospital hospital hospitals, schools. that s where they re living. and again all that of that makes it hard to bring in big power and hit them. and there are still several thousand americans in the country. so you have to watch thout for them, as well. if isis is so powerful, don t they have certain staging points, supply headquarters, other facilities that could potentially be targeted without fear of innocent civilians