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Pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski. Jim, these air strikes that the president said he authorized have begun, hitting isis territory. Explain what the mission is. Is it about creating space so that the kurds can basically regroup and take them on themselves . Well, you know, while all the attention overnight was on this humanitarian air drop and the possibility of air strikes, the major concern of u. S. Military officials has been the situation around erbil and the isis militant rebels have been able to move so swiftly with such precision and, quite frankly, speed and coordination, that it exhibited a new kind of ability, military capability on the part of the isis forces and that the peshmurda forces, long considered to be some of the fiercest fighters in iraq were actually put on the run. So the idea that just last night president obama warned that if there was any threat to u. S. Facilities, personnel there in erbil, that he would order air strikes and that happened this mornin ....

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