Rep. Sherman: If We Have Zero Casualties in the Mid-East, ‘We See San Bernardino’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
MARKS: "Yes, but I would have to challenge that strategy. To minimize the casualties is not a strategy. What we need to do is to work as effectively as we can with the host nation so that we can achieve the goals. I am in complete agreement with Baghdad's relationship with teheran, and it is sinful, and incredibly painful to us moving forward if we don't have a balance in terms of what we can try to achieve relative to what Baghdad is trying to achieve. That is what the diplomacy is all about, and an element of diplomacy is the military and it is a derivative of what we are trying to achieve."
SHERMAN: "We cannot have zero casualty, because even if it is zero in the Middle East, we see San Bernardino. So as long as we are involved at a present level in Iraq and Afghanistan, we will have a present level of casualties and this year, we have lost 21 even with this terrible incident, but we used to lose 21 in a single incident. And now, half of them have been caused by accidents, and by the opponent's military."