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to all of this is fox news contributor colonel alan west and fox news military analyst general tom mcinerneys with us. good to see you. thank you. colonel west, it's a two-part yes. a, is what we're seeing city and town after town be toppled ground we had gained through a lot of bloodshed on america's part, is that a direct result of the president pulling out early and with that said, what do we do now? >> well, there can be no debate about the fact we left a vacuum there. in 2011, i was on a visit to israel and prime minister benjamin netanyahu said don't withdraw all of your forces out of iraq because you will create a vacuum. what we're seeing is the exact same killing fields of pol pot and could be worst. we have to function on the d decimation. it will bode very bad for the united states of america and indeed the entire world. >> what do we do, colonel? >> i think you've got to start striking on them, hit their base camps, their lines of communication -- >> so air strikes and intelligence? >> i think you have the intelligence and the air strikes initially to soften them up and i believe

to all of this is fox news contributor colonel alan west and fox news military analyst general tom mcinerneywith us. guys, good to see you. thank you. colonel west, let me start with you. it's a two-part question. a, is what we're seeing city and town after town be toppled ground we had gained through a lot of bloodshed on america's part? is that a direct result of the president pulling out early and, with that said, what do we do now? >> well, there can be no debate about the fact we left a vacuum there. in 2011, i was on a visit to israel and prime minister benjamin netanyahu said don't withdraw all of your forces out of iraq because you will create a vacuum. so what we're seeing play out is the exact same killing fields of pol pot and could be ten times worst. annihilation and destruction and decimation of this isis army. they already have a capital in one of northern part of syria and the province they have taken. it's not a threat to iraq, it's also a threat to our neighbors there as well as a threat to our best ally israel. the formation of an islamic caliphate will just bode very bad