Tom Brokaw: Unlike Obama, Bush 41 Was Able To Get Saudi Soldiers Involved

BROKAW: "We all have to remember that with that speech last night, he [Obama] has defined his presidency. If it succeeds, he will be a different kind of president remembered than if it fails. He has two more years in office, and he said repeatedly, that this is going to take a long time, so I think it will preoccupy him for the next two years. Moreover, he says the most important job that he has is to secure this country. And therefore it goes right to the top of the list of all of the achievements or failures of any administration. Big outstanding question for me is -- I have all the confidence in the world in our air power and the air strikes, but no military analyst believes that you can win with air strikes alone. What are you going to do on the ground? We spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money training the Iraqi army. As soon as they were confronted, they bolted, they were going in the other direction. Part of what was so successful about Iraq One with James Baker and President Bush 41 - they put together much broader coalition.They put a lot of troops on the ground, a half million, and at least, they had Saudis in uniform and in the skies. Here we're going to have Saudis that will us training camps. We hope they're going to shut down the money that is going from the monarchy out to ISIS that helps finance what they are doing. So there are a lot of open questions here. This is a very, very big deal. The president said last night America has never has been safer. 61 percent of the country in our recent poll said they feel this is a real and relevant danger to this country. And the problem with ISIS and all of  these kinds of organizations -- no one know this better than Richard Engel, who has been tracking them for several months. They are amoeba-like. You can hit them hard, they can move, live on the land, get more money, and get reorganized."