walid phares and k.t.r deputy security adviser to president trump and served in the nixon and ford and reagan white house. it's good to have you both here. k.t. first your reaction to the taliban talks and simultaneously the announcement of the spring offensive even after we lost three of our servicemembers in the last few days. >> lou this is the longest war we have ever had. we have nothing to show for it in the united states in afghanistan and i think in iraq before whatever reason we got in the point is now we are spending hundreds of williams and trillions of dollars to prop up leaders who don't like us in countries that no longer matter. lou: the president wants to bring our troops home. i can imagine the generals have any credibility whatsoever on the issue of afghanistan as k.t. points out. it's been nearly two decades. what are we to do? >> i'm happy that i'm with k.t. again. welcome back. >> thank you friend, welcome to you. >> i just came back from the region and a major conference in dubai abou

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we have walid phares, former trump advisor. how do you prevent these kind of things.after time we have to come back, sometimes after a weekend or just after a day where it is in the news talk about another one of these attacks. this most recent one in the san diego area. are we making any progress in terms how we prevent whatever it is going on here? >> in the general picture, yes, we are making progress. we are determining that there are many elements to be monitored. we are monitoring those but this cannot stop it. this cannot prevent 100% in the war against terrorism and this is terrorism. terrorism or extremism, violent extremism, you cannot be 100% sure you can prevent each one of them. what is important to understand what is happening. who are these people, what are they at this point in time doing more and more of these attacks. connell: talk about that a little bit. there are multiple theories as i kind of alluded to on purpose, what's going on here? some would argue the problem is what white supremacists. that is problem around the world not being dealt with

walid phares is a national security and foreign affairs analyst.u could first, sir, respond to what we saw happen over the weekend. >> absolutely. there is a lot of confusion and fog in the international media. first of all who did it, the name of this organization. once you translate it from south asia to arabic you have a brand which has been used by both al qaeda and isis, more al qaeda than isis in terms of creating local chapters all encouraging local jihadis to form the networks. that's the name. in the report you mentioned that christian communities were targeted. it is obvious that al qaeda and isis have declared many times in many ways are the enemies, christians, jews and moderate muslims. >> bill: this country hasn't seen this type of violence. >> it's true in a country you haven't seen this type of violence or the jihadists before. this is their encounter. this is the equivalent of their 9/11 or first attack in london and first attack in madrid. what will you go about it after that? sri lankan authorities. they knew there were jihadi ne