Brokaw: It’s a Little Late To Be Attacking ISIS; Bombing Them Now Is a Recruitment Tool

"Let's just put it all in some historical context. I know Admiral Kirby very well. He's been in the service for the long time. He served with great distinction. But he was in the navy when we bombed Iraq at the beginning of this war. And people remember that night when we went after Saddam Hussein and thought we would all but level the city. But the next day, his Sunni army and the people who were loyal to him, emerged from [indecipherable] and began to fight back. So bombing from 20,000 feet or 10,000 feet has an impact and it looks worse to us than it does sometime to the people on the ground. That’s one issue that we have to deal with. It’s not pinpoint killing, it's kind of massive destruction hoping that you will, as he said, interdict their command and control apparatus. But they have had warning. They have been able to melt into the hills in some way and they have this uncanny ability to reinvent themselves also. If we strike them so hard and that  begins to goes out into the wider Islamic community. Inevitably, young men say, 'I’m going to join the Islamic forces,' so it becomes a recruiting tool for ISIS. So it’s a tricky piece. What most people have been reluctant to say is we got started way too late with too late. We’ve known about ISIS moving out of Syria and moving into Iraq for some time. And the time to hit them was when they were on the move before they got themselves positioned in Iraq and had taken over cities and created an infrastructure for the military."