when we show up with 150,000
troops in iraq or afghanistan,
it is effective to a point, but
also reinforce that is message.
that is why the vote we took in
the house yesterday and training
and equip mission is critical.
to win this fight, we have got
to final pardners, muslim
partners, in the case of isil
preferably sunni partners to
fight them.
we have got to convince the
people in this region that they
need to fight this evil for
their own ache.
we were successful in the an bar
awakening precisely because that
is what we did.
we had troops there but went in
and worked with the sunni tribes
in the anbar region and they
took the fight.
it was a bit frustrating
yesterday to listen to people
who were concerned about it,
didn't want to do the train and
equip, worried about the u.s.
military to get into enyanged,
in favor the bombing but didn't