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Speaker 1: Some of that has been hitting the so called Gaza envelope,

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Speaker 3: So what they're calling the second phase is underway in Gaza.

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Speaker 3: All the talk over the weekend on your Sunday talk shows,

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Speaker 3: How do we stop Israel from going too far? No

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Speaker 3: talk really of how do you wipe out hamasks so

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Speaker 4: Well, before we plunge on with that conversation, which is

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Speaker 4: military consultant to decorating veteran of the United States Army, Jeff,

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Speaker 4: how are you, sir?

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Speaker 2: Very well, guys, good be with you.

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Speaker 4: So while that Jackson introduction sounded a little like media criticism,

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Speaker 2: No, it certainly does. I mean they're conducting warfare in

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Speaker 2: the traditional free domains air land and sea, isolating the battlefield.

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Speaker 2: Now going to a second faith, it might be important

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Speaker 2: to main weight maybe information information war. And it certainly

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Speaker 2: But from the onset, of course, there was this popular

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Speaker 2: that does seem to be what's turning against Israel to

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Speaker 2: come back to you know, is there a comparison historically?

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Speaker 2: The one I think of frankly, is Isis. You know,

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Speaker 2: Isis threatened the same kind of barbaric action and conducted

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Speaker 3: So if AMAS is going to you know, put their

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Speaker 3: So I mean, don't I honestly don't know what they're

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Speaker 2: No, You're exactly right. It is a terrible conundrum. I

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Speaker 4: It's an excellent point. The information war is not merely

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Speaker 4: But speaking of that sort of thing, if you were

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Speaker 2: Well, look at this way, there's thirteen thousand people per

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Speaker 2: About eighty ninety percent of the people of Pellujah had

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Speaker 3: Well, the topic of the news cycle is what we've

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Speaker 2: Well deterrence is there a function of what happens in

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Speaker 2: The question is that sufficient at the short term? Right

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Speaker 4: Jeff mccauslin, CBS News Military consultant. Final question for me, Jeff,

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Speaker 2: Well, history's in perfect, but it's the only metaphor we got.

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Speaker 2: The Battle of Felujah took six weeks. That was a

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Speaker 2: Nobody this day knows how many civilians were killed. The

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Speaker 2: But the scale of this operation is just enormous. So

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Speaker 3: Well, just we're going to let you go. But do

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Speaker 2: There already have been over eight thousand killed since this

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Speaker 2: obviously the fighting is going to get more intense as

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Speaker 2: Take care, Armstrong and Getty