This is John Batchel, a conversation with Bradley Bowman and Cameron McMillan,

the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, about the deployment of U.S. personnel in eastern Syria,

suppressing, watching, preventing ISIS from growing again,

with large detention facilities of thousands. What is to be done?

Brad addresses it directly about the choices that the DOD must make

dealing with a two-front war at least, the Indo-Pacific and Europe,

and what about the Middle East?

Here's Brad to make the case for why the deployment in Eastern Syria must stay and be augmented.

ISIS is dangerous in future, not now, in future. Open those detention facilities and dangerous now.

Much more of this tonight. Bradley Bowman. This administration believes China is the number

one threat to our country. I agree. This administration believes that we need to be doing more in the

Pacific urgently to deter aggression there and protect our interests. I agree. But in the military,

in the U.S. Army, as Cam and I know, he's an Iraq veteran, I spent some time in Afghanistan. We both studied military tactics and strategy. There's the main effort and the supporting effort. The main effort, yes, is in the Pacific, but an important supporting effort is in Europe and the Middle East. And if you don't devote sufficient resources to protecting your interests in the supporting effort,

then small problems in the supporting areas will become bigger, siphying off time, attention, resources,

troops, and money from your main effort.