Stavridis on How We Reached This Point with Syria: ‘In a Word Incrementalism’

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STAVRIDIS: "In -- in a word incrementalism. Instead of making relatively bold choices and -- and some obvious ones, enforcing that red line as you mentioned, Joe, but we -- we’ve kind of added a little bit at a time; a thousand troops in Iraq; a few more advisers. We’ve tried to bring some special forces into Syria. We’ve never take -- taken the bold step. We've never enforced the red line. We didn’t put up a no fly zone. We didn't put up a no drive zone. We didn't put sufficient troops on the ground to really have the impact. So, we -- we are edged out of this one. And I don’t know where the Trump Administration goes on this."