could be reactivated quickly. >>> joining us now fox news strategic analyst lieutenant colonel ralph peters thanks for being with us. let's turn first to what i really believe is a formidable, if not historic geopolitical military maneuver by vladimir putin. he is attacking nato politically. he has moved militarily against ukraine and crimea. he has positioned himself in such a way as to expand his influence throughout the middle east, and reinsinuate himself into the european discussion. your thought? >> you just said it. vladimir putin, he may be vulgar, may be crude, but he is brilliant, and western elites underestimate him because he didn't go to the right prep school. but the paris attacks, lou, were a gift of vladimir putin. he was able to say yes, it was a bomb that blew up our airliner. he was hesitant because it would have reflected on syria policy. after the paris attacks, he said see, this is an attack on all civilization, we must stand together in solidarity. he was brilliant with how he reached out to franchquickly with serious military offers. we were reluctant to hit because

weighing in lieutenant colonel ralph peters, welcome back. >> hello. kennedy: so, i ask you, what should we be doing? >> for one thing, stop saying ridiculous things like best way to fight isis to tell them we're not afraid. shut up and do it. the best way to nic fight isis is to kill those foxtrots and keep on killing them, this president is not going to do, that think how low we've fallen, our oldest ally, france, is attacked. almost 500 casualties, a quarter of them dead, they ask us for military help, our president brushes this off, as a setback, and president hollande of france has to turn to vladimir putin and russia for military aid, and putin provides it, now the british are onboard, everyone is calling on isis dropping bombs except us, this president still romantic. >> i think that is important, i think that getting a psychological grasp on this president, what does putin's involvement do to nato? >> well, it undermines the cred bill tie o -- cred bill credibility of nato, when the united states, takes its ball and goes home. putin is capable

joining us is fox news lieutenant colonel ralph peters. thanks for being with us. let's turn first to what i really believe is a formidable if not historic geo-political military maneuver by vladimir putin. he is attacking nato politically. he has moved militarily against ukraine and crimea. he has positioned himself in such a way to expand his influence throughout the middle east. and reinsinuate himself into the european discussion. >> you just said it. he may be vulgar, crude but he is brilliant. he is underestimated because he didn't go to the right prep school. notice right after that he was able to come out and say, yes, incident was a bomb that blew up our airliner. before that he thought it would reflect on his syrian policy. he also was brilliant with how he reached out to france quickly with serious military offers. whereas the united states, we gave some old targets we were reluctant to hit because of collateral damage. the president of france asked president obama to help france, let's all get on the team. and obama's response was that dreadful presser

kernel ralph peters your thoughts? this seems that the city is quiet at least 140 people dead with these coordinated attacks. >> you are right after bedight on fridays when things get going it is terribly sad but i go back to a fundamental point that this is a war ended different kind that it is more brutal than most it is not pow but kill or be killed it is extermination from fanatics so we will be upset about that remember how disturbed we were after the charlie hebdo attacks not even one year ago? locale for the islamic state has come and i want to talk briefly about the sovereignty issue. something we have in common with the open borders is the ruling elites that there is something wrong with national pride but that we have no national identity we are one big happy family i tell young officers and people in general if you want to be the idealist you must have a real lead -- a realistic appraisal we are led by idealist to have a fantasy of the situation. lou: k.t. mcfarland? >> what happens next? if the refugees tal

joining me on the phone, lieutenant colonel ralph peters, you wrote a great piece today.this topic. on the lack of leadership from obama, it felt like america has been tired of war since the vietnam war, i am not sure it has changed. >> americans have never been militaristic people in a sense of germany for is stan in the past. but i am sick and tired of people who don't know the american people. people who never leave washington and manhattan telling us what the american people think. the american people, are not tired of war, they are tired of losing they are tired of far to leadership could they are -- of poor leadership, they are tired of seeing their families sense out without a plan being killed and maim for nothing, when one president or the other does not really mean to win, they recognize is lamic state, isis is a legitimate threat, they are repelled by what is being done, they are concerned more than the president about the plight of christians in the middle east, and american people, certainly would support dynamic effective powerful short-term action against i

and coming up, colonel ralph peters.e says it's becoming clear that isis is sophisticated, highly organized and our intel services are too understaffed to beat them. colonel ralph is next. it's more than the cloud. it's multi-layered security and flexibility. with centurylink you get advanced technology solutions. including cloud and hosting services - all from a trusted it partner. centurylink. your link to what's next. >> i don't think they're gaining strength. what is true is that from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. they have not gained ground in iraq and in syria, it-- they'll come in and they'll leave, but you don't see the systemic march by isil across the terrain. stuart: well, that was president obama on thursday. of course, on friday, isis struck paris. joining us now, colonel ralph peters. welcome to the program. neither europe nor america, it seems, can police the domestic muslim population effectively. would that be accurate? >> actually, as long it's accurate. the eu

ralph peters wrote the great article called kill don't capture. read that article on the internet. we give them every every every single benefit when they haven't even ben on the battlefield or recognize the uniform. they are cowards and need to be killed. but more will pop up if we don't, that the ideology we will never stop this is only to% he believed this warm we're talking 10% of a billion or more people. charles denigrate article as well that it may be extreme but if we force of reformation is to seal our own borders over 24 months to save your cancelling all your visa cannot come here even if you have business that does hurt good muslim people and that is the point get them back in jordan and saudi arabia to look at their radical lease is ed neighbors it is because of the well was canceled i am losing money is you and that radical mosque and i will on stand for it any more instead be erode the civil liberties of americans said of putting the onus upon the muslim nations to reform their religion. so they are eroding our civil liberties in the wrong place turn up of the heat o

so we have kept troops in affecting, sent special ops to syria, retired colonel ralph peters is with me now questioning whether or not this is the right time to close the facility. so, colonel, there's a lot of military experts saying the u.s. should be more involved versus less involved in the fight against terror. do you agree? >> well, i would like to see us doing a lot more against islamic state and al-qaeda's remnants. but if you're going to do it, you've got to do it right. so i'm hesitant to do anything more under the obama administration because we send our troops under harms way with so many restrictions that they actually protect the enemy and so then you have phenomena such as the hospital. and the president won't stick up for our troops. he apologizes but he won't say war is messy, war isn't perfect and it never will be perfect, we should and could do a lot more, not under this president. deirdre: so, colonel, your point is well taken, and we were just discussing the russian president vladimir putin who doesn't seem to care for better or worse about collateral damage but

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ralph peters, we'll see you soon. >> thank you, stuart.tuart: he announced for the presidency in june of this year and since then, what, a headline a day from the donald? the latest headline is a warning for the wall street journal. a quote, the wall street journal loves to write badly about me. they better be careful or i'll unleash big time on it. and you've been writing badly about donald trump? >> if you know what donald trump means you should ask donald trump because in the same breath complimented my colleague james freeman. it's a bit schizophrenic. my thought about donald trump he wants to avoid talking about the details of the policy and a way to shut down debate and ironically, this is what the political left likes to do. stuart: mary, look, i don't think that's his appeal. the details of donald trump's policy ideas are not what makes him popular. >> we're not talking about that, stuart, we're talking about the tweet. there are big questions na need to be asked of donald trump and-- >> he's come clean on the tax plan and i've go

ralph peters is with us. first of all, ralph you're a global warmer.e has created this wave of tresm in the mideast? >> i'm just a warm-hearted guy, stuart. >> i know that. [laughter] >> i hate that term climate change it is so politically loaded. say climate change, republicans tell you pollutions patriotic and democrats tell you the world will end tomorrow because somebody bought a charcoal grill. what is undenial there's severe environmental degradation among much of the globe, and it -- >> that's result of climate? that's not the result of climate. that's politics. that's civil war, famine that's what it is. >> we do not know -- we do not know, we don't to the extent to climate change is natural. change over for the plane ya for the human effects just saying tack reasonable steps to preserve and protect the environment reasonable steps, the problem in paris stuart is that obama it is belief, core of his creed that american business has to be punished at the same time he's endull gent to great polluteers of china, india. i can tell you, one they thi

colonel ralph peters is here. ralph, i don't know. it feels to me too little too late.ctually it's not too late. it's certainly too little. the idea of rotating and bringing back u.s. army heavy before he gades of any kind is a decent first step but long, long climb with many more steps to come. and it's not cartridge putin's smart enough to know that just sending them on a temporary employment is a symbolic gesture but not meaningful because what you need as an not numbers is establishment. and when we grew down our forces in europe, which one point almost a half million on the ground, army, marines, air force, navy, we cut too deeply and dismantled the infrastructure, we had warehouses full of equipment so that in a crisis we could just fly soldiers in that could go to the warehouses, get the equipment and get on the move. well, now you send these but they're not ready to fight because they don't have the infrastructure, the spare parts, the ammunition, the fuel, the band-aid, et cetera. so, again, putin knows it's symbolic. again, let me repeat, it's a good symbolic

joining me now lieutenant co colonel ralph peters. i am going to you, it is clear what president obama was trying to say, i guess, that if russia was focused on isis rather than killing the people that we're backing this would not have happened? >> i think he is exasperated with putin, but the point is, someone finally stood up to putin, i am not a fan of president erdogan of turkey, they did not react immediately, the russian planes have been violating turkish airspace for weeks, they are doing it because putin categor -- figured he could, and they got right angles of attack -- the rebels on the ground, and russia pilots are sloppy. they were getting warning after warning, russian figures they would not dare shoot us down, but erdogan is as brash and bold as putin is, they are on different sides of this struggle, putin talks fighting isis. but he attacking everyone else, the people we're backing, the people that the turks are backing. they were not going to take these violations of the airspace, i believe that turks did the right thi

ralph peters wrote this in his column. the generals who won world war ii would start by levelling raqqa. civilians would die, but those remain nothing raqqa have emgraced. isis as the germans did hitler. >> they still have paris. it is see against the way we conducted warfare. when you look at vietnam. they picked out targets in the white house and our guys were not allowed to bomb surface to air missiles because they start yet to fire on them. and see here's the thing, war are fare is the most destructive of all human endeavors, and try to make warfare efficient is ridiculous. and taking an organization designed to fight and win in that kind of endeavor is challenging. and the more restrictions you put on it, the less and less victory is likely. >> isis has taken a lot of pages from the hams hand book. building command centers under the hospitals and inviting a bombing that looks bad on the news. >> absolutely. it will get media attention and you will have everybody out there beating the drum and unfortunate. but when you

ralph peters says he is delusional. >> this guy is so arrogant and at the same time so sensitive he can't admit he is wrong. the massacre in paris was a political alliance. >> this is a problem of letting the world go to hell and assumeling it won't come back to bite you in the rear end. frankly, i am going to be very candid, our amateurist foreign policy has its own place of responsibility in the mayhem we are seeing right now. >> our strategy is working against this vicious vile enemy is absurd. >>> new york city launching a gra brand new counter-terrorism team trained specifically to deal with scenarios like this in paris. the strike forces is made up of merely 600 hand picked officers. they will respond to multiple shootings in areas and detect explosiv explosives. they are in response to the changing times of terror. >> the assignment which you launched here, that assignment is foe longer an essential assignment in the world of policing. it will keep you equipped to keep you focused to protect this city. >> the goal is to have the counter terrorism unit fully trained by new year's ev

. >>> joining us tonight, lieutenant colonel ralph peters. iraq telling president obama that they do not want his army on their ground. and please stay out. it seems the administration forgot to ask the iraqis what they wanted on their ground. >> iran owns iraq. iran is on the upswing. russia is a new power player from the outside. the iraqis. they love our air power. they'll take all the free stuff we give them, all the money. and the state department will cling to its billion dollar embassy in baghdad. iraq is gone. thank you, mr. president. >> let's turn to another region where the president, at least, has responded. that is the south china sea, sending a navy guided missile destroyer into the spratly islands in the contested areas that china is claiming. i have to tell you, it took two years to do it but i was impressed he did that to stand up to the chinese claims. >> yeah, i actually am all for that. i applaud him for doing something good. he wants the transpacific partnership. to do that he's got to play to the filipinos, japanese, bru

lieutenant colonel ralph peters on this. bill: what is happening with this gaping hole that swallowed car after car after car? at one point, did not work. you had some blocks and you had major thoroughfares and corridors that were just totally pitch black. those things had to change. we wanted to restore our lighting system in the city. you can have the greatest dreams in the world, but unless you can finance those dreams, it doesn't happen. at the time that the bankruptcy filing was done, the public lighting authority had a hard time of finding a bank. citi did not run away from the table like some other bankers did. citi had the strength to help us go to the credit markets and raise the money. it's a brighter day in detroit. people can see better when they're out doing their tasks, young people are moving back in town, the kids are feeling safer while they walk to school. and folks are making investments and the community is moving forward. 40% of the lights were out, but they're not out for long.they're coming back. spend

lieutenant colonel ralph peters joins me now. colonel, you've been following this story.t's your take so far? >> well, there are certainly a lot of rumors, and we certainly do not know what happened. there was a possibility that this was a maintenance issue. i know the russians, i work with them, the russian idea of maintenance is to split a litter of vodka and hit things with hammers. but there's so many coincidences that point to the possibility of terrorism that it wasn't shot with a missile or a bomb or another form of sabotage and you don't need a big bomb to bring down an airliner, i follow the media every day and the russians spooked about this. they immediately slapped down -- the government slapped down the aviation company when it said it wasn't pilot error, it wasn't mechanical problem. today the russians rushed to announce very much prematurely there's no cyber have sign of bomb or residue on any of the corpses. and putin, this is unusual for him. he came out with a statement that said no one was going to intimidate russia. he wasn't talking to us or the europ

colonel ralph peters fox news strategic analyst.sident's press conference really got to you. what does that mean? >> well, you know, i can be hot headed about things. can i get angry. but, i really don't let things penetrate too deeply. i live my life. listen g iting the president's presser i thought we are at a point you everywhere talking earlier about dang done the only person bees everyone who has done more damage has actually jefferson davis president of confederate states of philadelphia. used the word delusional. it is beyond durable. this guy is so arrogant and as i want so 60ive. he cannot diminish he and is he wrong. he reacted p political annoyance. the french are in this now. they are doing their best. but they can't do it -- nato can't do it. nobody can do it without us and we are awol. >> all right. nato, my suggestion that they declare war on isis that the 28 nations band together command and control in europe develop tactical strategy to what these people -- wipe these people off the face of the earth are you with th

. >>> lieutenant colonel ralph peters.hese negotiations, the iranians said that the destruction of israel is nonnegotiable. during these negotiations they chanted "death to america." after these negotiations they canted "death to america." they burned american flags before, during and after. why did this president do this and how do we undo this? >> well, because he's desperate for a legacy. he has a myth of himself that be my the magical force of his personality can turn enemies into friends. we never had negotiations with the iranians. what we had was this administration's slow surrender to iran. but you know, when i see all those films of people chanting "death to america" and burning flags, yes, we get wired up about that, but it's the wrong thing to get wired up about. because that's not really about us. it's about the domestic situation in iran. political factions vying for what comes after ayatollah khamenei dies and he's rumored to be in ill health. they can't get young iranians interested. what we need to be conce

colonel ralph peters. so where am i going wrong, colonel? you hear anything in that press conference that was new today? >> well, no. president hollande of perhaps went home empty-handed despite the nicey nice. the only real global reaction to this in the russian media where they are outraged that president obama didn't express concern and sympathy with the russian pilots shot down. you know, the issue of a world war, it's not coming -- it's here. it's just a different kind of world war. it is global jihad. we won't face it. it's not as lethal as the first two yet but it is there and it's real. bret baier looking at the situation in the middle east earlier today he described it as three dimensional chess. i would amend that to say it's three dimensional chess played by psychopaths. president obama still does not begin to take this seriously. the region is spinning wildly out of control. today we saw a very dangerous confrontation as russia, which has been swash through the region finally had somebody stand up for them and turks 100 percent r

stuart: ralph peters no fan of president obama.emember, that was the top of the hour, we start every weekday 9:00 sharp, you want the good enough, 9:00 sharp here we are. we've got 35 seconds before we start trading. this is monday morning, it's the holiday week, thanksgiving comes up on thursday, of course, i'm a newly minted american and i'll be giving thanks. [applause] congratulations. >> i had to get one out there. and the bell will ring and it will start trading this monday, holiday week as i said before, in about 15 seconds. now as i look at the futures market, i'm expecting the dow to be pretty flat. up a little, down a little, but pretty flat. remember, we're coming off one of the best weeks in months, actually. and it's straight up and we're only what, a few hundred points away from dow 18,000. okay, the trading has begun. we're down on points, we're down six points, there you go. a pretty flat opening, basically. >> i want to take a look at oil before we go further because we've got a lot of wall street types who say, as

colonel ralph peters. do you think it was isis bomb that blew up that plane in egypt? >> yes.s still an outside possibility that it was a maintenance issue because, bill, i will tell you i know the russians and their idea of maintenance is vodka and start hitting things with hammers, the circumstantial evidence, the target, the timing, the flash, the kind of reverb didn't damage done. hard to believe it wasn't a bomb. >> you are not sure. just surmising based on news reports that that is the most likely scenario because the russians and egyptians deny it. the british and a few other countries have said the planes can't fly in sharm el-sheikh resort on the red sea anymore. the u.s. has not said one way or 00 other. we have got to know in the next day or two. even if it isn't, the isis threat, i'm not sure that÷r americans understand it because if they are going to start to blow up airliners, which they certainly want to do. they have taken credit for this that's going to touch everybody in the united states and all over the world is, is it not? >> certainly. the one thing reall

maria: joining us by phone is army lieutenant-colonel ralph peters.for joining us, good to have you. >> if these reports of the death of jihadi john are proven true is very good news. maria: very good news. what do you think this represents? obviously he was a major leader within isis. he also represented one of their technology leaders in terms of recruiting people to joel in their cult. >> yes, that is true but his primary value was as a charismatic figure on the internet. in general he had a lot of followers. he was seen, be heading western hostages, the fact the justice is done to him is not only satisfying and not formal sense but one of the few ways we can win an information warfare. when we try to reason or make arguments about that is not true the islam that registers with nobody. when you kill them, when you kill their spokesperson, when you kill their leaders, when they cannot deny it, that is when you change the information then. this ultimately is partly about information warfare and ultimately it is about killing. maria: the pentagon is n

lieutenant colonel ralph peters, strategic analyst. thanks for joining us. >> hi, heather.ther: this isn't entirely new. we knew that isis said they will infiltrate the refugees. >> well, of course they will and they're saying that for a couple reasons. one, because it's true and also because they want to disrupt the reception of refugees. it is very complex problem. there is lot of debate, but also here, whether refugees themselves will be terrorists. whether they will be infiltrators, whether isis and others are concentrating on homegrown lone wolf terrorists. the answer is all of the above. the terrorists have a comprehensive approach, islamist terrorists. they will even poach from each other from one organization to another. they will take suicide bombers, attackers, wherever they can find them and it is unquestionable that at least some of the refugees or so-called refugees coming into the germany, young islamic males, young muslim males, some are certainly already islamist state sympathizers. others when they find that germany isn't the utopia they thought it was goin

in the meantime, colonel ralph peters on what the russians are doing after they determined their jetlineraken down by an explosion due to terrorism. they are striking back. what will we do next? the colonel is on deck. bill: consternation at a soccer game in istanbul. this was supposed to be a moment of silence when this happened. that's a series of boos. role reporting inside the stadium said they were followed by chants of "allahu akbar" or "god is great." i could not hear the chants of "allahu akbar" but those in the stayed p.m. said that. >> i have been going to turkey since the late 1970s. the president erdogan has taken it so far backward socially and culturally, he has put far more journalists per capita in prison than the chinese. he brought back fundamentalist religions in turkish society that had been relatively he sky lahr by law. this is one more case of obama watching passively as another country is marched back towards fundamentalism. president erdogan is closest to the muslim brotherhood. president obama still sees the arab world as somehow being colonized and oppressed by

now, a terror attack might be payback for russia's war in syria, colonel ralph peters on that just momentsa wall street favorite, 40 chipotle restaurants closed. that stock will open lower. donald trump warns the wall street journal, you t

i know you were listening to what ralph peters has to say. he is all for boots on the ground.. go after them and kill him. would you say the same thing? >> the kernel is 100% correct. expressing what really should be done. you can only destroy isis. they are a malignant tumor. these guys are not benign. you radiate the surface around it. it is just that simple. >> paris. do you think the public mood has shifted to the point where americans would welcome american troops going after isis and killing them. >> i think americans would welcome american leadership did we cannot have an american president who instead of closing our borders like the french president did in declaring war on isis like the french president did, he wants to open our borders. the only people appear to be republican governors and any republican that wants to make americans safe. more interested in protecting the reputation of islam than he danny is the safety and security of the american people. stuart: real fast, governor. we had a democrat congressman on the show that wanted to bring in the serious refugee