Because a year ago he had done a raid and said they re not going to try this again, 0 are if they do, we d come back at them. there wasn t much question he would come back at them. i agree with general think it wo do this with allies. that s a nice sign. but i think the real problem we have going forward is we don t have a syria policy. this issue is getting worse and worse. we re seeing iranian encroachment in these sunni-arab lands. there is a lot of concern right now where the middle east is going and we need an administration that knows how to pay some attention. we learned there is going to be an all-senators briefing tomorrow by defense secretary mattis. what might we learn from this all-senators meeting, if anything? probably very little. i think ambassador hill s entirely right, there isn t a strategy. i m sort of sympathetic to the administration. it s hard to know what we could do. assad is on the verge of
Get away with the idea they are not going to be engaged there, they are going to be engaged in yemen? saudi arabia is part of the inspiration for a lot of this kind of radicalism. they need to be involved and engaged directly. there are many sunni arabs who absolutely abhor the tactics of isis but at the end of the day, they say but at least they re doing something about the shia. the shia encroachment into our sunni arab lands. i think we really need to have a very robust diplomatic strategy to support a war winning strategy with respect to isis. very briefly, could i ask you how nato would do in increased operations if france does request this with russia? how does that work together? well, obviously there are issues of deconfliction we have talked about over the last few weeks. i think first of all, nato, if france is going to be at war and if we agree with the proposition that france is at war, it seems to me that nato has to convene