couple years ago because we were preparing a documentary about former president george h.w. bush, and i was just looking back at that interview, and he was talking about the days leading up to dez are the storm and he said to me, i don t like war, and if we can avoid war, we avoid war. but he wanted to make sure he had a clear understanding of what it would take and what the mission would be, and that just resonates with me, because once he had the mission, he was all in, but i remember time and time again his saying that, you know, he wanted diplomacy. he was hoping everything else would work, but that once he knew what his mission was, he was all in, and forgive me, i m
has already had more than 6,300 air strikes against isis in syria, and iraq. give us some perspective on that, in terms of raw numbers, and obviously we know that the preponderance of air strikes have been done by the u.s. well, you know, and i think the right number is 6,300 sorties, and the number of aircraft that actually could effectively deliver munitions is far lower, and in many cases we re striking targets where they have warned the people on the ground we re going after them, so again, i think some of these numbers very deceptive. in dez are the storm when we went after the iraqi army, the rate of sorties was immensely higher and there were restrictions on what we had. three weeks ago before the paris attacks, general, president obama also approved a small group of fewer than 50 special forces commandos to deploy into northern syria.