that decision, what would we have done with 10,000 u.s. troops? would they have enforced security? frafr frankly, would we have wanted them to be fighting in places like mosul and fallujah against isil. republicans have criticized president obama for not leaving troops in iraq and some have said if american forces had stayed there would be no isis. but emma sky believes that was never in the cards. iraq s prime minister maliki had a new set of patrons, his fellow shiites in tehran. and they made him an offer he couldn t refuse. that was part of iran s deal with maliki. we ll give you a third term but the conditions are, no american soldiers, that was what iran had demanded and no way had had gone through parliament. one thing was clear. it was only iraq s army that could have stopped isis.
why? because we face a huge threat from radical islam. anybody running for president, frafr frankly, should be laying out specifics and a plan, a strategy, something that this administration by their own admission has not had on how we are going to defeat what is an enormous threat to our country. a lot of people would welcome more specifics than less, except i ve been seeing that a lot of voters don t seem to care about that. brad, ana, great to see you. outfront next, inmates charge that guards tried to beat information out of them to find out about the escape of two killers from a new york prison. are they telling the truth? breaking news, this huge, huge fireball has killed at least 17 people. ahead, why firefighters are struggling to bring it under control still.