the history of world war i and world war ii that it is these economic coalitions that led to the eu. these things that led into nato that really kept us safe from russian aggression. there is u.s. troops right now in eastern europe and lit whuan similar to what we saw in the ukraine. he fails to understand the sacrifice at the tackty dal level and how the affects of our alliances kept these troops safe for a long time. that s a place where he failed as chief. until he gets out in the field, he s not going to understand it. it s gotten to be so toxic with our allies. even though they threw him a military parade. but that s fallen apart quickly. donald trump tweeted on friday very upset that president macron at france suggested europe might need to build its own military
these last eight years without firing a shot per we ve eliminated serious chemical weapons program. all of the steps have kept us safe and kept our troops safe. that s the result of diplomacy. we don t have strong efforts there, the more you will be called upon to clean up after the failure of diplomacy. we were able to find a solution that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from syria in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished. bret: there you see president obama december 2016, then susan rice in january this year. in april of 16, the state department had a report called the compliance with the convention on prohibition of the developed, stockpiling, use of chemical weapons in which it said the united states cannot certify that the syrian arab republic is in compliance with its obligations under the cwc.
think about what we ve done these last eight years without firing a shot per we ve eliminated serious chemical weapons program. all of the steps have kept us safe and kept our troops safe. that s the result of diplomacy. we don t have strong efforts there, the more you will be called upon to clean up after the failure of diplomacy. we were able to find a solution that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from syria in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished. bret: there you see president obama december 2016, then susan rice in january this year. in april of 16, the state department had a report called the compliance with the convention on prohibition of the developed, stockpiling, use of chemical weapons in which it said the united states cannot certify that the syrian arab
if so, how complete objectives keeping troops safe? great question. they re necessary. said three years ago on cnn, apparently nobody listening, needed 10,000 u.s. forces to help destroy isil. not 100,000. about the same to take raka back from isil in syria. anybody told you what winning looks like in war on terror? in world war ii, we took berlin and tokyo. if you re in the military, can t promise you won t be redeployed. need more troops in afghanistan, not less. if lose there, pay a heavy price because that s where started. the enemy we didn t have one
really keeps the troops safe. he used to have us back in what he would call combat park at the team so we were always at the ready. what i don t like about what the dod is doing here is they re announcing that they re raising this threat level. i don t understand why they have to do that. you brought up a very good point. the surrounding area around a base is really the biggest soft area of a base. military members live right off base. the companies and the businesses that are right off base are huge targets. look just like in garland, texas, they didn t kill anybody, but they ve caused everybody to talk about that. that s a successful attack. if they go and hit a family that s a military family or they wait until people come out of the gate or they hit a business across the street that s a successful attack. that s where my real fear in all this is. i keep thinking about the communities around these bases, just knowing them. colonel, do you agree with jonathan how the dod is handlin