And just who are they . Ill talk to a man who knows the region well, former u. S. Ambassador to iraq and afghanistan, ryan crocker. And what can america do . I will talk to richard haas about washingtons options. Also, any hope of Immigration Reform is dead on arrival in congress. What does that mean for americas neighbors in mexico . I will ask that nations finance minister. And the world cup, fifa is under attack for making money off the backs of brazilians, but really, its part of a much larger problem, even here in the United States. Call it the business of sports. Finally, thailand may be in turmoil, but the generals still want people to just be happy. But first, heres my take. Inevitably in washington, the question has surfaced, who lost iraq . Whenever america has asked this question, as it did with china in the 1950s or vietnam in the 1970s, the most important point to remember is the local ruler estate, the chinese nationalists, the south vietnamese government, were corrupt, inefficient and weak, unable to be inclusive and unwilling to fight with the dedication of their opponents. That same story is true of iraq, only much more so. So the first answer to the question is Nuri Al Malaki lost iraq. The shiite Prime Minister and his ruling party have behaved like hugs, excluding the sunnis from power, using the army, Police Forces and militias to terrorize their opponents. But lets remember how Nuri Al Malaki came to be Prime Minister of iraq in the first place. He was the product of a series of momentous decisions made by the Bush Administration. Having invaded iraq with a small force, what the expert tom ricks called the worst war plan in american history, the administration needed to find local allies fast. It quickly decided to destroy iraqs sunniruling establishment and empower the hardline shiite religious parties that had opposed saddam hussein. This meant that a structure of sunni power that had undergirded the area, for better or worse, for centuries, quickly collapsed. These moves to disband the army, dismantle the bureaucracy, and purge sunnis, in general, might have been more consequential than the actual decision to invade the country. If the Bush Administration deserves a fair share of blame for losing iraq, what about the Obama Administration and its decision to withdraw all American Forces from the country by the end of 2011 . I would have preferred to see a small American Force left in iraq to try to prevent the countrys collapse. But lets remember why this force is not in iraq. Prime minister maliki refused to provide the guarantees that every other country in the world that hosts u. S. Forces provides. Some comment tate verse blamed the Obama Administration for negotiating badly or halfheartedly, and perhaps this is true. But heres what a senior iraqi politician told me in the days the american deal was being discussed. It will not happen, he said. Maliki is not allow american troops to stay on. Iran has made very clear to maliki that its number one demand is that there be no american troops remaining in iraq and maliki owes them. This iraqi politician reminded me that maliki had spent more than two decades in exile, most of it in tehran and damascus and his party had been funded by iran for most of its existence. And in fact, malikis government has followed policies that have been, broadly speaking, proiranian and prosyrian. Washington is debate willing whether air strikes would work or Training Forces would be more effective, but its real problem is much largeary and a decade in the making. In iraq it is defending the indefensible. For more, go to c nchlt nchnn. C and read by Washington Post column this week. Lets get started. Lets go straight to baghdad and get the latest on the war in iraq with eyes sis. The latest accounts seem to suggest that baghdad was secure, but you are hearing something somewhat different . Reporter maliki had drawn a line in the sand in samarra, about two hours drive north of here. Overnight the government called on the iraqi army to pull out of the base in bang cab ba. That is well south, 45 minutes northeast of baghdad, much closer to baghdad than samarra. And the army was to told pull out. It went out, took its weapons out and eye sis moved in within the hour. A from what we understand from calleddy Intelligence Forces and tribesmen fighting along eye sis, i talked to them two days ago this plan they are following through right now is the plan that they had all along, to move swiftly through the country to get to baghdad, to encircle baghdad to put pressure on maliki to resign or form a government of national unity, to take baghdads International Airport and the latest we are hearing from the saudi source, an intention potentially to shell the northern outskirts of baghdad to put pressure on it. The sunni tribesmen i talked to said we dont want casualties in baghdad. We want to avoid that. Different faxes fighting toward the city here, not clear which one is going to have the upper hand when they arrive, fareed. Nic, the iraqi army on paper has the iraqi government, on paper, has 800,000 troops between the internal Security Forces and the actual army. What are they doing in these circumstance and why do they feel . Reporter multiple reasons they flee. Troops in sunni areas feel afraid from behind, know the soup nist, the tribesmen are against maliki and acquiesce to the arrival of eye sis. Some of the people in the army themselves are sunnis and are fed up with Nuri Al Malaki. Isis some of the people in the army themselves are sunnis and are fed up with Nuri Al Malaki. I was told there was a deal with senior Iraqi Military commanders to convince them to put down weapons, to take their uniforms off and they would be treated fairly. That was something they passed down to their subordinates. Theres another strand in this as well, that these welltrained iraqi troops, welltrained and equipped by u. S. Forces, ive been told by people who trained them, that they are that they are very capable of taking on isis, but these younger soldiers, junior soldiers, disaffected with more Senior Officers who they say have been handpicked by maliki and his cronies in it for prestige for their families to be commanding strong units. These men dont respect their commanders, not going to fight for them. So, many reasons why the army is breaking down. The assessment from saudi intelligence is that command and control in the army is breaking down at the moment. I would suggest that perhaps not command and control, but confidence in that structure is breaking down. In baghdad, we are told that the faces on the checkpoints are changing. That means there is lows less less faith on the men in the checkpoints who were there a few days ago. The government feels it needs to put in much more toughened fighters to keep control of the city. Its a complicated picture but thats the way it appears at the moment, fareed. Fascinating reporting as always, nic. Stay safe. Up next, what should the United States be doing in iraq . What can it do . I will ask two former officials who have dealt with this at the highest level, former ambassador to iraq, ryan crocker and former director of policy planning, richard haas. You will want to hear this. Predibut, manufacturings a prettin the United States do. Means advanced technology. We learned that Technology Allows us to be craft oriented. No ones losing their job. Theres no beer robot that has suddenly chased them out. The technology is actually creating new jobs. Siemens designed and built the right tools and resources to get the job done. You know that dream. On my count. The one where you step up and save the day . Make it happen. crowd oh no. Introducing verizon xlte. Hey guys, i got it right here weve doubled our 4g lte bandwidth in cities coast to coast. So take on more. With xlte. For best results, use verizon. Theyre the days to take care of business. When possibilities become reality. With centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary Cloud Infrastructure and Global Broadband network free you to focus on what matters. With Custom Communications solutions and responsive, dedicated support, we constantly evolve to meet your needs. Every day of the week. Centurylink® your link to whats next. Lets dig deep near the iraq cries skis, joining me, two men, both held senior position, both with deep experience on iraq. Ryan crocker was the u. S. Ambassador to iraq from 2007 to 2009. He is now the dean of the bush school of government and Public Service at texas a m. Richard haas was director of policy planning at the state department during george w. Bushs first term. He is now the president of the council on foreign relations. Ambassador crocker, john mccain has said that one of the things he would do was send you back to baghdad. I want to know what you do, were you there, and i want to ask you specifically why you think that maliki would listen to you. You were telling him to be inclusive and to do all the things that people now want him to do and there were 100,000 american troop there is at the time. Do you think you would be able to do anything if you were to go . Fareed, we have a very, very good ambassador there right now in the person of steve bekroft. But ambassadors cant do it all. You need heavy fire support on the diplomatic front. So if i were asked to return to iraq, the first thing i would request is that secretary kerry get on a plane immediately. We have lacked that highlevel engagement with the iraqis that was so crucial during my term in office. So, we we need the secretary of state out there, in baghdad, right now. We need the president on the phone to the iraqi leadership, because the reality is the iraqis are not in a position, they were not in a position when i was there, they are not in a position now, to work out hard compromises on their own. Its zero sum politics and there are a lot of strong, historical reasons for that. It is not all malikis fault, although he does bear substantial blame. We are the essential middleman among sunni, shia and kurds. Ambassadors can go just so far. Would you, ambassador, use air strikes, you heard nic roberts robertson, who said the sunni tribes, a lot of sunnis, would feel, it appears to me, these were air strikes by the United States in support of a shia government. Would you still support the air strikes . I would support very carefully targeted air strikes, but they would have to be in conjunction with a serious, highlevel, diplomatic effort that would engage the shia, the sunni and the kurdish leadership. We have got to help the iraqis come together in a unified fashion to confront a common threat. The air strikes, again, properly targeted, could help back up that we are serious about this. We are engaged. The politics have to take the forefront, but as we have seen in the past, they have got to be backed up by, you know, the second d, which is defense. Richard haas, what are the dangers here and what would you do . I think the horse has left the barn. And by that, i mean, fareed, i think its too late for the kind of diplomacy that ryan crocker is talking become as desirable as it might have been months or years ago. I also think essentially, the idea of iraq thats united, functioning country, good idea, but again, i think thats essentially over. So at this point, what i would focus on is making the best of a terrible situation. I would put pressure on this isis group in syria. Its long since time to provide serious help to alternative opposition elements in syria so they dont have the luxury of just focusing on iraq. I would accept the fact that the kurdish area of the north is now effectively an independent state. I would make sure theyd essentially what they need. I would provide economic support for jordan, which is staggering under the enormous refugee burden. I would rethink our policy toward afghanistan. The last thing we want to do now is not have a residual force there, we ought to have learned the lesson here in iraq. And i think we you know, we could use air strikes, as ryan says, but quite honestly, at most, it is going to delay things, not going to be decisive, its not going to be lasting, maybe we can bring about a serious government of national unity, but it hasnt worked now for over a decade, so quite frankly, im skeptical. Ryan, what would you do in syria . I know that, you know, on this program, you have been very cautious about intervening there, seeing it as you called it a forest fire that one would just have to let burn out. Do you think theres anything one can do in syria that would be meaningful . Fareed, i have been saying for months that our main effort has got to be on syrias neighbors. Richard rightly points out that jordan is under tremendous pressure. So is lebanon. And again, ive been saying for months, we need to be doing more in iraq and we are now seeing, i think, the consequences of not doing more. I would disagree with richard staying is too late for diplomacy. Maybe it is. Maybe it isnt. But i think the iraqis, sunny, shia and kurds are all badly frightened here. There is a moment for us to step in. The iranians are heavily engaged, the american secretary of state needs to be in baghdad, too, to see what can be done. Because the stakes are very high here. This is al qaeda 6. 0. And if they consolidate their territorial gains, they will be in a stronger position than they ever were in afghanistan prior to 9 11. And we know how that turned out. Richard, describe what you see as the new middle east then, because what youre describing, as far as i can tell, is the United States strategy that really shores up the islands of stability, jordan, turkey, kurdistan, the golf states, of course, and accepts that theres going to be a very there are going to be very messy badlands in the middle east. Alas, far reed, i think thats where we are. The middle east we know is essentially drawn up or designed 100 years ago by the british and French Foreign minister and that middle east is unraveling. If theres a historical anna log here, and not make you or anyone else watching this program feel very happy, it is europe in the early part of the 17th century, when you had politicalreligious wars went across boundaries, lasted for 30 years and i think we are into that sort of situation in the middle east. Theres no boundary anymore between, say, syria and iraq. It may exist on a map on paper but not in reality. So, we have identities now that dont in any way line up with where the formal borders are. So, what we have to do is preserve those borders, as you say where we have friends, have real interests, some reason to belie believe involvement would pay off. Other areas we have to contain, that might mean treating parts of the middle east the same way now we have to treat parts of africa, say, or say parts of pakistan. These are nogo lands, that he is are badlands, need to have counterterrorism strategies, use drones, use aircraft, maybe Even Special Forces on occasion, but we cant put Humpty Dumpty back together again and if 100,000 american troops or more for a decade in iraq couldnt do it, we had similar problems in afghanistan, i think we have got to accept the limits of what it is we can accomplish. Sometimes in foreign policy, you try to create. Other times in foreign policy, you try to prevent. I think right now with the middle east, we need to focus more on what it is we prevent rather than what we create. Thank the both, fascinating perspectives. Greatly appreciate your wisdom. Next on gps, the world cup. Fifa has come under a lot of fire for how much taxfree money it is going to make while brazil foots the bill for the world cup. But the Soccer Federation is just one of many such groups with deals like this, including some powerful ones in the United States. 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The football, by which i mean the soccer, will be spectacular, but the group that put it together has come under some fire. Like other bigtime sports organizations, fifa, interNational Footballs governing body, is a selfappointed, selfregulateded body with little accountability and massive revenues. It demands that countries adhere to its every whim when they agree to host the world cup. Brazil has spent an astounding 11 billion to host the fifa tournament. Fifa officials have to be treated like royalty and there have been accusations of bribery and other forms of corruption. Accusations that are also clouding qatars winning bid for the 2022 world cup. The demands can sometimes be simply grotesque. In 2003, brazils government banned the sale of alcohol in stadiums due to the rise in alcoholrelated deaths. But Hbos John Oliver points out, that law is no match for fifa. Bud wiser is one of its main sponsors and fifa demanded that brazils booze ban be overturned, which led to this outburst from john oliver on hbo. And at this point, you can either be horrified by that or relieved that fifa wasnt also sponsored by cocaine and chainsaws. This sort of pandering and preferential treatment extends well beyond budweiser. According to brazils Internal Revenue service, fifa is getting tax exemptses worth nearly 250 million. Other estimates are even higher. Why is an organization with a reported reserve of more than 1. 4 billion receiving such huge tax ben get fits . Well, because fifa is a nonprofit organization. And guess what . Its not just fifa, the International OlympicCommittee Committee also has nonprofit status. The ioc generated 5 billion in revenue between 2009 and 2012. And right here at home, the ncaa is tax exempt, too. According to bloomberg, its tax breaks on ticket prices alone cost the u. S. Treasury 100 million annually in uncollected revenue. It isnt just the amateurs. Professional American Sports leagues are in on the game as well. Amazingly, the National Football league, the National Hockey league and the pga tour are all nonprofits, and thus have tax exempt status. The pga tour generated nearly 1 billion in revenue in 2011. The nhl reported record earnings of 3. 1 billion in 2011. And the nfl made 9. 2 billion in revenue in 2013, according to forbes. That makes it the most lucrative league in the entire world. The nfls commissioner, roger goodell, took home 44 million in 2012. Why in the world are these leagues considered nonprofits . In september, oklahomas republican senator, tom coburn, asked just that question. Coburn introduced the pro sports act, which would strip professional sports leagues of their federal Tax Exemption if they earn more than 10 million. The nfl obviously makes much more than that, but to be clear, the organization does point out that only the League Office is tax exempt. 392 member teams do pay taxes on their income. But the chances that coburns bill will pass are slim to none. If you want to know just how powerful these legs are, listen to this. This week, the Minneapolis Star Tribune published what it said was a confidential list of demands provided by sources, demands that the city had to meet in order for the nfl to award minneapolis the 2018 super bowl. The star tribune said the nfl and the Super Bowl Host Committee declined to comment on the document. The leaked document was 153 pages and it requests, among other things, all travel costs for 180 League Officials to take a familiarization trip before the game, Police Escorts for all team owners, as if they are heads of state or something. And, of course, exemptions from city i county and state taxes. This on top of the massive subsidy already in place. Minneapolis taxpayers forked over nearly 1 billion in public funds to help build a new stadium for the game. This is worse than crony capitalism. Its chromeny socialism. The nfl, fifa, the ioc, are all large, multibillion dollar global organizations that make their decisions mostly to maximize their revenues. Theres nothing wrong with that but there is a word to describe them, businesses. And they shouldnt be exempt from the rules, regulations and taxes that other businesses around the world have to pay. Next on gps, eric cantors downfall means the death of any hope of Immigration Reform in congress. What does that mean for the u. S. Economy . How about mexico . Lets get the perspective from there. I will talk to mexicos finance minister. Because my dentures fit well. Before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. Even wellfitting dentures let in food particles. Super poligrip is zinc free. 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What does this mean for the United States and as importantly, what does it mean for its key neighbor . Joining me now is mexicos finance minister, luis vittere. Their for being on. Thank you. Such a pleasure. Who do you think of this situation . I think its surprising. This is not a mexico issue, this is a u. S. Issue. We under it that way. Do you look at it with some puzzlement . Because as you know, net mexican immigration to the United States over the laugh year or two, has been essentially zero. Thats a fact thats little known in the u. S. But its a very important fact. In past years, the migration was positive into the u. S. , but in the past four years, the net migration has been zero. That means the number of mexicans coming to the u. S. Is about the same that the number of people coming to the u. S. Into mexico. What is increasing is not the flow of people but the flow of goods and services. Every year, we have we have an increasing amount of trade. We do 1 million of trade per minute between mexico and the u. S. We have 1 million crossings of the border legally every day. That means that the integration of these two economies is happening regardless of what people say in washington or in mexico city. Just it makes so much sense to have value changed linked, produce things together as we do in the Auto Industry for every dollar we export to the rest of the world. U. S. Content and production. Explain that again for a second. Every dollar that mexico exports, 30 crepts of that dollar is something that you bought in america . You bought in america. Every time we export america is exporting with us. It happens on the u. S. Exports, because many components coming from mexico. Why do you think the mexican immigration to the United States has stopped, or at you say, the number of people coming from mexico to the u. S. Is equal to the number of people going from the u. S. To mexico. Net migration is zero. Is that because there are enough goodpaying jobs in mexico . Is that because of the u. S. Recession . When your economy starts growing even faster, will the old pattern reemerge and youll see more mexicans coming across the border . Thats quite unlikely. A u. S. Recovery will mean more jobs in mexico, and better paying jobs in mexico. Its not at all projected for these to change. In fact we expend this trend to continue. In a sense, in washington, were fighting yesterdays war. In other words, there isnt going to be a big problem of mexican migration into the u. S. In the future. Certainly not. Future with the lens of the past. Immigration will be more about students coming to the u. S. Even u. S. Students going to mexico to learn spanish and get different skills. Will be of high qualified workers, either u. S. Coming into mexico or mexicans going to the u. S. Remember, there are already over 1 million u. S. Citizens live in mexico and they are doing jobs throughout the country, they are being quite productive. Some people are retiring into mexico and thats going to grow as well. While we have this conversation about bashing mexico or electrified fences, people like George Schultz, Ronald Reagans secretary of state, Richard Nixons secretary of treasury, George Schultz says the real conversation we should be having is how we have freer movement of people from the u. S. To mexico and mexico to the u. S. To deepen the immigration between these two countries. Do you think thats even possible . Let me show you something where we have more attention, which is infrastructure and the border. As i said, this is a very active border. Trade doubled since october, the best 20 years and we havent invested the side of the border anything substantial to improve the crossings, so the queues are getting longer, wait times are getting longer and these are the kind of things we should be focusing on much how can we be sure something that is produced in within mexico, then goes to a factory in north carolina, and that it would be exported to europe. How can we streamline that process to make it more productive, more competitive for both countries . That means infrastructure. That means logistics, thats where the focus of mexican relationships should be on. We should been planning for the opportunities, not the problems. I perceive the u. S. Government is focusing strongly on that, so as we. Pleasure to have you on. Thank you, fareed, such an honor. Up next, if watching the world cup you see pictures of the slums of rio and wince, my next guest will give us the case for slums and hes a harvard professor. On my count. 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Ed rozier studies slums. You have a chapter called, whats good about slums. When you look at those slums in brazil, in india, what are we missing . Were missing the alternative. While we would never want to spend a week or month of our lives in these slums, the people who come there are not fools, they are moving places that are far worse. It gives them the ability to find a future. Yes, theyre hellish by the standards that were used but not more hellish than the rural arias of brazil. Theres more in the city than in unproductive farmland. Not that people in slums are poor, but cities attract poor people because they want to stop being poor . Absolutely. Urban poverty is more of a sign of urban strength than weakness. Cities dont make people poor, at least not most of the time. Cities attract poor people with a promise of a better life, with the ability to get around without a car. My own Work Together with matthew khan of ucla found that poverty rates go up in the United States near new subway stops. That doesnt mean the cities are impovrishing people, but subway stops attract people that arent able to afford the lifestyle of american suburbia. When we look at those things in flavellas, theres an enormous amount of Economic Activity going on there. Its all informal. Nobody pays any taxes. You know, is that something that one should celebrate . I think so. I mean, i think there are things also to hate about slums, certainly. I think the first order of things when i walk through a place like deravi, which is a magical place filled with enormous energy of indian talent. Theres a guy sewing brassieres and you think youre in the lower side of manhattan in 1905. And across the street, theres recycling of boxes, theres a ceramics potter making ceramics, and there are people recycling plastics. All sorts of things, where do they come up with this . And even though there are some places of opportunity, they are and that makes the mega cities liveable and humane. What are the solutions to American Cities when you look at Something Like detroit, what do you think what went wrong . How can you fix it . Well, above all, its just enormous headwinds of economic change. Its age has come and gone. In some sense these great factories were at odds with the successful cities. They are marked by three things. Smart people, small firms, and connections to the outside world. Actually, the same three things were great during the time of alexander hamilton. Smart people are able to use the density to learn from one another and, of course, connections to the outside world is what detroit is all about. You had factories from the outside world and when cost conditions change for a location across the ocean and the cities didnt reinvent themselves, you ask which cities in america have been able to come back. Its education above all. Its human and they looked at reinventing and structures and what detroit was a city built from 1. 85 Million People and less than half of that amount. And people with monorail glided over city streets. So tell the city of the food truck and part of this clause i ended up on a Radio Program several years ago with a poor woman who was trying to start a food truck for 18 months and had been facing regulatory barriers at every turn. In detroit of all places. Right. The idea that detroit should be saying no to any entrepreneur who wants to get started there seems mind boggling. But the degree of pragmatism said, look, the food truck will never catch and one model towards freedom. Pleasure to have you on. Pleasure to be on. Up next, the new military chief in thailand has an unlikely message for its people. Lets just say, he seems to have been inspired by pharrell. Kid do you pay him . Dad of course. Kid how much . Dad i dont know exactly. Kid what if youre not happy . Does he have to pay you back . Dad nope. Kid why not . Dad it doesnt work that way. Kid why not . Vo are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed . Wealth management at charles schwab. The world cup kickoff brings me to my question of the week. What country is making its world cup debut this year . Bosnia, moldova, singapore, or south sudan . Well tell you the answer. Stay tuned. If you love the show, dont forget to dvr or tivo the show so you never miss the information. This weeks book is the forever war by dexter filkins. His writing is not opinionated or policyoriented. He just takes you inside the war, the occupation, the ins insurgency. Now for the last look. The Thailand National team may not be in the world cup but thanks to the military government after the recent coup, they will be able to watch the world cup for free. Since then they have cracked down on protests and detained critics. Despite all this, they also have a message for the thai people. Be happy and free broadcasts of all 64 world cup games is just part of the attempt to return happiness to the people. They are also giving away movie tickets, throwing free concerts in bangkok with singing soldiers and scantily clad women and even brought horses with bales of hey downtown. He wants to return happiness to thailand. So much so, that he wrote a ballot about it. Its set to music by the Royal Thai Army band and has more than 200,000 hits on youtube. With lyrics like we offer to guard and protect you with our hearts and to bring back love, how long will it take, please will you wait, its not as catchy at the other happy song. The correct answer to our gps challenge is a. Bosnia was formed in 1992 after the breakup of yugoslavia and is one of the smallest countries with the team in the world cup this year. While the Unemployment Rate is high and gdp stagnant, the nation is trying to integrate itself into organizations like the European Union and the World Trading organization. It may be an underdog but it does have a world class striker, the second highest scorer in the european qualifying matches. Best of luck in the first ever world cup match against argentina tonight. Thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. I will see you next week. Hello. Im fredricka whitfield. Happy fathers day to dads across the country. A look at our top stories at this hour. A legendary radio voice falls silent. Will this be the seventh week at number one . Im casey kasem and here we go. Dead at the age of 82, a look at his decade long career and the family feud that boiled over in his final days. Also, chilling images out of iraq as militants claim they have executed dozens of iraqi soldiers and providing pictures, they say, is proof. Well take you live to baghdad. And the mother of one of three israeli teams abducted in the west bank now speaking out asking for prayers. Israels Prime Minister blames hamas but what is hamas saying . Well go to israel for the latest on the search. We begin with the man whose career and voice were both known as legendary around the world. Casey kasem has died at the age of 82. He had been suffering from dementia and had been hospitalized in Washington State and his daughter was given the authority to have doctors end his infusion of water, food, and medicine. Kasem had said he would not want to be kept alive if it resulted in a mere biological existence. Many are reflecting on his life and music. Nischelle turner has more on the man that some call the worlds best radio host. Reporter radio personality casey kasem was best known as