we do and damned if we don t. when we talk about trying to prevent radicalization, how do you do that when you re viewed as an invasive force killing more and more people? it just i don t know how you well, the tricky part is we won t send the 82nd airborne against isis on the ground. that s not going to happen. the fact is the president was what i would call benign neglect about the continuing expansion of isis, the more sophistication of it all the time. it these come to a halt. very quickly. it s a generational conflict. you wrote about the greatest generation. we need to have more people having skin in the game. do we have to have more service? we need to have this country understand they have to sacrifice some as well if we go to war. not just send 1% of the population over there to make the fight. i m make that the last word because as you can see we needed 90 minutes and we tried to squeeze it into an hour. we ll be back next week. have a terrific thanksgiving, m
it s not about going to church is not what i m talking about. i m talking about that every life has real meaning and as if you read more carefully you would have noticed that i ve invited moderate muslims into this discussion as well. i proposed some time ago a comprehensive plan to deal with isis, including boots on the ground, a coalition including arabs, nato forces, no-fly zones, sanctuaries, a lot of things. but i said we can win the battle of bullets, i have no doubt about that, but we have to also engage in the battle of ideas when we have many people, including many young people, looking for meaning in life somewhere other than in western civilization. and i think it s the western ethic, western civilization that is under attack. they don t want to negotiate, this is almost a metaphysical battle where they re saying they want to destroy our very way of life. and i think it s important we communicate these ideas of the importance of an individual and equality of women and resp
america. are there legitimate reasons to slow the process or is this just islamophobia? joining me for insight and analysis are tom brokaw of nbc news, kathleen parker of the washington post, colleen cooper of the new york times and ron fornier of the national journal. welcome to sunday and a special edition of meet the press. good sunday morning. the belgian capital, brussels, remains in lockdown with soldiers on the streets amid fears of an imminent isis attack. police in that city are also searching door to door for one of the paris attackers who is believed to be hiding somewhere in the brussels area. meanwhile, overnight in malaysia president obama struck a different tone than he did earlier this week and he addressed americans fears about terror specifically. the most powerful tool we have to fight isil is to say
plan. but what s worse, there are rivalries over the future of the land isis currently occupies, especially in the middle east. saudi arabia and many of the united states other allies don t like the islamic state but its destruction is not their top priority, it s third or fourth down the list. turkey, for example, is more worried about the kurds establishing their own state. saudi arabia is more worried about iran and so on down the list. there are very few countries who share the united states desire to destroy the islamic state as a first order priority. reporter: many are wondering whether what happened in paris will be enough to shock the world into finding some sort of consensus, or will it take yet another terrorist massacre to do that? and isis is now threatening attacks in the united states. richard edge untngel in turk. thank you very much.
working? well, chuck, look, i don t know how much he s working and i don t know who they re surveying and i do believe in polls like you do, but at the same time, who are they surveying and are these people for real? i don t think so. i think at the end when you don t have experience, when we look at this critical nature of foreign policy, i listened to a lot of what leon panetta had to say, i agree with much of it, much of it i already said. and the idea that we re going repel an entire group on the basis of their religion, that s nonsense. as you know, i ve been in a twitter war with donald trump and experience does matter and i have a lot of it, chuck, that s why i have a solid plan to get rid of isis and rebuild our military. very quickly, bill bratton, new york city police commissioner, says he wants congress to ban the ability of anybody on a terrorist watch list even if they re an american citizen that they can not buy firearms. it s a proposal sitting in congress, the n