paris, french intelligence forces are really over their head. fred, this is harris. president obama had said just yesterday that isis was contained. what do you think he meant by that and was there something that got missed here and if so, what was it? i was stunned when the president said on good morning america that isis has been contained. the president has never recognized the threat from radical islam. he s never seen that this has been global threat based on an i d yol gi. he s tried to say that the islamic state is not islamiisla. and at this late stage the fact that our president doesn t get it, it really worries me what will happen in the next 15 months. fred fleitz, thank you very much. let s turn to a fox news mid eastern terrorism expert.
we will take and whether or not we can vet them the way that we should, so on, so forth, what do you think should be our main concern in terms of keeping things safe basically about how many we should take and europeans challenged by millions. why don t we look at the root problem. the root problems are in syria. i mean these refugees are mostly comes from the syrian/turkish border and soon enough with other borders with syria because there is isis in syria. so the effort should be instead of struggling with the consequences and the effect of that crisis by making sure that isis is defeated. and because the administration unfortunately and to a certain degree the european union did not did enough to end the problem in syria, now we ll have to deal with the refugee problem that is not the normal one. a normal one would be economic migrants and so, no, this is a
pressing questions going forward, right. the first thing is will the french public blame france s involvement in syria for these attacks the same way british blamed in remark bombings. in hollande goes after isis hard, will he now drop his demand that assad steps down so as to get russian and syrian and iranian backing for a sort of unrestrained french campaign. that s an interesting question. can we trust the russians? are you suggesting that we team up? i know president obama says that he will talk to anybody with regard to calming things down inside syria. and look, we know up to this point that the russians have followed a policy of going after everyone except isis. right. but hollande will be under so much pressure to respond strongly and viciously against isis in syria that even though he s been the most hard lined
we can tell you that france has been bombing iraq and syria, also fighting radical jihadists on the continent of africa. extremists in africa. and these extremists have frequently issued threats to france. so joining us now on the phone to talk about this is fred fleitz, senior vice president with the center for security policy and former cia analyst. given what was said in the concert hall, this is for syria, given the fact that france has been bombing extremists, isis extremists, in syria, you would draw a direct connection? this is an isis attack. either isis directed or isis inspired. this is a distinction without a difference. we know this is how isis is carrying ultimate out its global jihad. to stage attacks like this or inspire them through the enter
opponent of regime change in syria, you might actually see him dropping that can demand which would have a significant strategic consequence. matt, let me get your thoughts on this very same subject. of course the french have been bombing isis targets in both iraq and syria. would you expect now given these events that that may escalate and they may not in the end be deterred as perhaps isis would like? well, it may. it may be just the response that king hussein in jordan had when they killed his air man and burned him to death in the cage. so france may respond recognizing with the simplicity of this attack that more force overseas may quell some things at home. so that may be a strategy. all right. we are getting the latest figure now, 127 dead. and look, these numbers will continue to change if for no