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Bed by the president last night, did any of them make the cut. look, i know in the presentations i made, i made a a big deal about the problems of the r.o.e., about needing the decision making to be in afghanistan not back in washington. i mean, sadly, there s been a number of open-air taliban victory parades just in may, june, and in july in afghanistan of hundreds of taliban fighters in dozens of captured vehicles in a brazen, open air victory parade, thumbing their nose at the united states and the afghan government. that s an enemy that s not afraid. because the targeting cycle and the bureaucracy of the pentagon, they were unable to strike them. hopefully w that clear direction, very clear direction from the president last night, that can at least be prevented. and part of what you have proposed, if i m not mistaken, was a private military force proposing to send private contractors to afghanistan instead of u.s. troops. why would that be a good idea? well, look, already, be
With six deployments in the middle east including iraq and afghanistan holds the extinction of being the first attack pilot to fly in combat. mcsally serves on the armed services and homeland security committees. i sat down with her in our nation s capitol. we got to cut them off to put them on their heels and shift the momentum. reporter: isis uses drones to direct jihadi suicide truck drivers to their targets, with devastating effect. that s not something that s easily done, it requires a certain degree of sophistication, communications, shouldn t we have those kinds of capabilities to make sure he can t communicate with the truck driver? absolutely. there is a level of sophistication they are using to do a targeting cycle. to find, fix and finish and communicate. we have capabilities in order to take out command and control. why shouldn t we be using