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diamond, thank you very much. >> let's talk now with cnn national security analyst peter bergen.eter, the president is vowing a strike on isis-k. what would a u.s. response look like, do you think? >> well, i think -- i think that's kind of the ludicrous assertion. we're pulling out every troops, all u.s. troops and our intelligence assets are almost entirely gone. so where do you engineer that strike from? is it from qatar where clarissa was just reporting from? well, that's over a thousand miles away. how do you gather intelligence without having any assets on the ground and operating in a hostile country essentially. think about the bin laden raid in pakistan where the united states had a substantial diplomatic and intelligence presence and took a decade to engineer. so i think this claim of striking back is simply, you know, it's wishful thinking at the highest order. >> so then what is it? does it -- is it just sort of to you an assertion where he's trying to show strength after having been hit? >> yeah, basically. i mean, look, you can imagine drone strikes, we certainly in