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joining me now retired army colonel lawrence wilkerson.do you agree with that basically that we're seeing something that is more of a difference in kind than a difference in degree when you look at the use of, you know, j-soc and drones and targeted killing by this president for the first six years of the war on terror and what we're doing in syria and iraq right now? >> i think it's a difference in degree and kind, it's a difference as you've insinuated but also think it's a difference in empire. that is to say when you spend this kind of money on this kind of target, for example, a million dollar cruise missile on top of a $200 ak-47, you are doing something that is markedly different from what you said covert operations in yemen, a strike here, a predator, a reaper there, this is a much wider, much deeper operation and it will cost a fortune. let's make that very clear. >> yeah, there was an estimate today that i saw that was $1.5 billion a month. it was from defense one reported that. it's hard to say. where would the money from this c

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joining us now, lawrence wilkerson. colonel, good to have you with us, appreciate your time. i want your thoughts on these air strikes. we are in the strike mode now. i don't know how often we're going to hit them, but in your opinion are these air strikes the right move? >> ed, first let me say i agree with the congressman as james madison said, the surest way to tyranny is to give a president unfettered war power. in the last decade, we seem to be doing that with great liberality. as far as air strikes themselves go, i don't see this as a technique, as a way to make our point with respect to the islamic state and its forces, other than the kinetic reality of making the rubble bounce, maybe killing a few of them. what it is going to take to achieve the objectives that you showed president obama outlining in bold at the united nations is not bombs, it is going to take forces on the ground, hopefully arab forces, maybe even persian forces, muslim forces that are opposed to this more radical manifestation of their religion, eliminating these people. we can drop all of the rait

american forces from pakistanis and afghans in exchange for five thousand dollars bally's moreover lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff for colin powell made a sworn declaration in two thousand and ten that top members of the government knowingly lied about these men being dangerous he said that the deliberate choice to send detainees to guantanamo was an attempt to place them outside the jurisdiction of the u.s. legal system indeed having this prison outside of u.s. soil made it easier for the government to argue that the prisoners of war and title to protections under the geneva convention and us constitution and as of this broadcast one hundred forty nine men in the initial seven hundred seventy nine remain prisoners at guantanamo but the remaining six hundred thirty having already been released without charges or something transferred to prisons in other countries only six of the hundred forty nine men are on trial five alleged coconspirators of the nine eleven attacks and one not alleged mastermind of the u.s.s. cole bombing so who are the remaining men colonel lieutenant kevin bogey one of

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. >> i want to bring in colonel lawrence wilkerson, secretary of state of colin powell and worked int office and was rate there. there is an ominous time for america, kecolonel, your reacti to the president and where it stands. >> i'm worried about whom we'll be arming and where those arms might ultimately wind up. i've seen a lot of this in my time. i success congressman garamendi that i don't like this business of the executive being able to take the nation to a new war without any with the congress. we need to rest the war where it ought to be, in the congress. i think the president's approach as expressed last night was fairly judicious. we do not need to do anything beyond what he said until we see if what he said works because we are not going to defeat anybody in this region of the world without the people who are vested in that region, the iraqis, the syrians and others actually doing the heavy lifting on the ground. there's no one to fight for. there's no border to fight for, there's no nation to fight for if these people won't find for themselves and one questions whether o

. >> the oranther night lawrence l wilkerson told us there had been some kind of cease-fire made between syrian moderates and isis. that was debunked by secretary state john kerry when barbara boxer asked him about that after appearing on this program. do we really know what's going on. does our intel have a good grip on, quote, who the good guys are, if we're going to be arming these syrian moderates. secretary of state, kerry, down playing it. >> it's tough. this is tricky. part of the reason is assets on the ground are limited. the isis group is so extreme and tightly controlled that it is very hard to get human intelligence inside that group reporting out. so what you're talking about is there's some reports, factions of the rebel group have agreed not to fight isis at this point and to concentrate on assad. i think those alliances come and they go. it is possible that both reports could be right. the problem we have, really, and secretary kerry alluded to this a bit and members of the committee pressed him on it, it's unclear how many moderate forces are left in syria. this fight so