that we could easily accomplish. we ve shown since 1991 that we can pretty much do what we want militarily in iraq. the question is what do we leave afterward. that s the real strategic issue. david, that continues to be a problem. we went in this 9d1. we we won military. in 2003 we won by 2000 2009. george bush says we need to have the surge. it gives him the political space to reconcile. two things we ve learned in iraq over the past 20 years is they really don t have a cohesive army. doesn t look like they ever will. two, they re just never with those straight lines we drew there s never going to be political reconciliation. is there? it is discouraging. but the issue you put your finger on it joe. it is a 100-year-old issue. the west after world war 1 sort
to talk about these issues than actually be president of the united states. this is a really tough, tough situation. it s not just for us. it s we are talking about generational. we need to figure out how to move some really big pieces. how do we get saudi arabia to stop spending billions of dollars on medieval theology that they promote around the muslim world instead of spending that same mrn ononey that would educate the world. bring egypt out of its problems. we need to look at real powers in this region and figure out how to move them into the 21st century. david von draele thank you so much for being with us. david s written a great article,
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