and we re going to have to talk about the migrant crisis at some point because that s going to raise issue ins terms of thousand handle that. victor, i don t want to turn this into a debate but how is he engaged, mike? this is a president that s been under selling the threat of isis to the world. his words friday were unfortunate, his words during the 2012 campaign were unfortuna unfortunate, the words this weekend saying isis didn t have the capability to hit us here were unfortunate. i don t understand and millions of americans don t understand and i guarantee you a lot of people in france don t understand why this president still feels like isis is contained and everything is okay. i think one out elements the administration is working on, i ve been told they were much more optimistic than we ve been lead to believe.
you need a lot of people. labor-intensive is this this regard to use american troops in this fight has been at least for this administration something it doesn t well, the president came in to office saying he was getting out. our strategy has been withdrawal. isis didn t exist at that point. no. but we should have learned when we went to syria, i mean in to iraq what a freudian slip that was, that if you were going to go in there you have to carry through. you can t kill a bunch of people and leave because it will not work. it will go to pieces. you have to reinforce success and doing that means a lot of time and people until you can establish governess there that will work. to give you a sense of what americans and fighting are up against, and this is not a story for those faint of heart but is when america was first bombing
that does work but it is labor-intensive. you need a lot of people. labor-intensive is this this regard to use american troops in this fight has been at least for this administration something it doesn t well, the president came in to office saying he was getting out. our strategy has been withdrawal. isis didn t exist at that point. no. but we should have learned when we went to syria, i mean in to iraq what a freudian slip that was, that if you were going to go in there you have to carry through. you can t kill a bunch of people and leave because it will not work. it will go to pieces. you have to reinforce success and doing that means a lot of time and people until you can establish governess there that will work. to give you a sense of what americans and fighting are up against, and this is not a story
attempts to wreak havoc, what are they doing on the ground right now? what are intelligence officials focusing on? and who s involved in this. at this point it involves almost law enforcement agency between europe and syria. you are talking greek authorities, serbian authorities, folks in and outside of the eu that are looking at their border records, trying to see who came across, whether the passports match anyone who crossed their borders. fbi is sending electronics experts. that s the other thing. they want to find out these explosives they have traces of the chemicals used. what kind of chemicals? who produced them? how could they be produced by people in bull jerusalem that didn t have access to a laboratorla made these. if he is still alive it is like the underwear bomber. let s think of this for a
western media was reporting there were eight attackers. if isis didn t have detailed knowledge of this at the centralized level, how much were they responsible for coordinating this? we don t know now. it is less of a question of who was responsible. no other group is issuing a competing claim. this appears 0 isis or isis inspired but how much were they involved in picking the targets and executing the plot. to get to the answer of the critical question, that would tell us a lot about what happened here and give us a sense of future potentially attempts to wreak havoc, what are they doing on the ground right now? what are intelligence officials focusing on? and who s involved in this. at this point it involves almost law enforcement agency between europe and syria. you are talking greek authorities, serbian authorities, folks in and outside of the eu that are looking at their border records, trying to see who came across, whether the passports match anyone who crossed their borders