Right. I served in places like Ramadi and I think a couple of things. Number one, you can't bomb your way out of an ideology. You know, We tried to do that with Al Qaeda in western Iraq. And you may, we may have had a ton of tactical victories. And then we left. And two years later, a group called ISIS grew up out of the ashes of Al Qaeda and took over an area the size of Texas. (01:44–01:48)
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