back to afghanistan as the u.s. prepares to end its combat mission. at the end of the period of war looks like today are scenes in iraq. a country that may be disintegrating before our eyes again. reporter: this is what is happening in iraq right now. hundred of thousand of people are fleeing their homes after a sunni militant group seized key towns in northern iraq and pushed on toward baghdad. the militant group goes by the acronym isis, islamic state in ir iraq. isis formed in april last year growing out of al qaeda in iraq. but it is so extreme that al qaeda has now disavowed them. the group which claims to have militants from around the world in its ranks including from u.s. and europe has had great military success in syria and now in iraq too. in january, they seized the town of fallujah, the site of some of the most brutal fighting between american forces and insurgents. then tuesday, iraq s second largest city, mosul which fell to american forces within the 2003
what we can only imagine to be horrific circumstances. much of the anger directed at bowe bergdahl from pundits and demagogues isn t actually at bowe bergdahl, it is anger at this long period of war and what the end of it looks like. what the end looks like is five taliban commanders heading back to qatar and eventually back to afghanistan, as the u.s. prepares to end its combat mission. what the end of this period of war looks like today are scenes in iraq, a country that may be disintegrating before our very eyes again. this is what is happening in iraq right now. hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing their homes after a sunni militant group seized key towns in northern iraq and pushed on towards baghdad. the militant group goes by the acronym isis and wants to make a new state of our the palestinian territories. isis formed in april of last year, growing out of al qaeda in iraq. but it is so extreme that al qaeda has now disavowed them. the group, which claims to hav
bowe bergdahl from pundits and demagogues isn t actually at bowe bergdahl, it is anger at this long period of war and what the end of it looks like. what the end looks like is five taliban commanders heading back to qatar and eventually back to afghanistan, as the u.s. prepares to end its combat mission. what the end of this period of war looks like today are scenes in iraq, a country that may be disintegrating before our very eyes again. this is what is happening in iraq right now. hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing their homes after a sunni militant group seized key towns in northern iraq and pushed on towards baghdad. the militant group goes by the acronym isis and wants to make a new state of our the palestinian territories. isis formed in april of last year, growing out of al qaeda in iraq. but it is so extreme that al qaeda has now disavowed them. the group, which claims to have militants all around the world in its ranks, including from the u.s. and europe, ha
amount of what s called track two work. we mentioned earlier the india-pakistan conference we had, and the pakistan conference we ve had. we were all involved in a very little group that at one point meant a lot back and forth with russians, chinese. and sometimes people who were in government know something about how it works and have access to people in the government. but meet can have a more relaxed, open discussion than if you are in the government and you have to watch every word that you say. so you can do things of that kind. and then third, we can take on activities that try to spread consciousness of the problem and support for doing something constructive about it. for example, we had inquiries from the evangelical community, and a group came to hoover at stanford, and bill and i met with them and others met with them. presented our ideas. and it has had some impact on the evangelical community. and, for example, they provided two letters toward the end of the la
little group that at one point meant a lot back and forth with russians, sometimes people whon government know something about how it works and have access to people in the government. but meet can have a more relaxed, open discussion than if you are in the government and you have to watch every word that you say. so you can do things of that kind. and then third, we can take on activities that try to spread consciousness of the problem and support for doing something constructive about it. for example, we had inquiries from the evangelical community, and a group came to hoover at stanford, and bill and i met with them and others met with them. presented our ideas. and it has had some impact on the evangelical community. and, for example, they provided two letters toward the end of the last election campaign. one was to be presented to to be presented to whoever won. and the letters were identical. it said some of us supported you, some of us supported the other guy. but