Hello, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt part in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, we begin with breaking news. President biden has been briefed on the raid which injured seven u. S. Troops and killed 15 members of the radical group isis. The raid happened thursday in iraq two of the seven u. S. Troops were evacuated from the area for further treatment, u. S. Central command manages operations in the middle east. They said that the operation targeted i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan further attacks from where we have cnn s chief international purity correspondent, nick paton walsh, joining us from london. Nick, what do we know about this american operation yeah, alex more details from the iraqi military he referred to the two months that was spent gathering intelligence ahead of this operation. And the four hideouts were targeted that appeared to be consumed camouflage of some description which would suggest yes a sort of camp of some desc
he said he was blind to the threat posed by the radical group isis in the middle ve. rand paul said he wouldn t send his son into those conflicts. here is how rick perry responded to that on cbs this morning. i understand as well as anybody the concept of putting young people in harm s way. we need a strategy that s sound. we need a strategy that when we say we re going to do something, we do it. and our allies again can trust us and our enemies fear us. reporter: now, as part of this back and forth, a rand paul adviser also responded. his name is doug stafford. he said 60,000 children just invaded texas and their governor has time to write an op-ed in a washington newspaper miss characterizing rand paul s idea of foreign policy. obviously that s referring to some of what s going on in texas and the comments rick perry has
because they believe in it per se but because they do believe in the need to fight the government. for their part, we have been hearing various calls for people to volunteer to fight along side iraqi forces. video of people volunteering and doing just that. iran also according to a source has sentenced several units of its elite special republican guards to help support the iraqi security forces but at the end of the day, this is not going to bring about any sort of resolution other than more bloodshed unless there is a certain level of political maturity that is exhibited by the iraqi leadership and one must say that s a political maturity that up until now iraq s key leaders including the prime minister failed to exhibit, don. very complicated story here. lots of moving parts. thank you. president obama wants a list of military options on iraq other than putting boots on the ground. but the list may be short and it s limited.
for you. so will they work? here to discuss this, former military investigator robert mcfadden. you have an elusive force that operates outside of syria. vietnam and all of the other forces, cambodia, as a sanctuary that they can possibly run to, correct? well, quite possibly but in this case and as you heard, the operative word of the day is complicated. more than likely, though, they re in for the fight locally and regionally. so that s what we would expect for the near term to longer term. you heard what tom foreman had to say and we listed some of the options that the president is considering and that our government is considering. but what do you think the options could be? what options could be used to take out isis and how could they be executed? one thing the president mentioned was working with the groups that are nonextremists. that has been an exceptionally difficult thing to do. not impossible but really quite
not have that. helicopter gun ships, air to grown missiles can still be effected. you can still target things, go and pick very specific targets. when groups like this, groups of insurgents and terrorists do what they have been doing for decades there. inserting themselves into the civilian population operating out of sensitive targets like mosques and hospitals and schools. places where it s hard to hit after hitting someone else. if you hit someone else, all that does is help make the case from isis say you can t trust baghdad or their allies. they re out to get you. so there is no central government building for isis. there s no camp on the ground for isis, a specific headquarters for staging and supply areas. so it s that much tougher to target them specifically. yeah. it s the same problem we had for