you re getting nods here from general eaton. talk about that crisis situation. roger that. you are going to be presented with a crisis, it s going to happen. and a lot of people speak in terms of the first crisis is going to be north korea. we lohse tst the opponent of an outcome when we disenfranchised the chinese relationship with the taiwan phone call. so he is going to get a crisis. and he has a team that is immature. it is probably not going to be fully manned. and he is not going to have those people in the room who are going to be sage and wise anding able to hay out a palay out a p the crisis. so many bad things can happen in that. and there are a lot of branches and sequels with what this crisis can perform.
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provide, if we can get action intelligence. thanks so much, general eaton. that sounds like an awful lot to do in a very short period of time. we have allies. we have a natural ally in iran. we have a natural ally in the peshmerigu with the kurds. when we come back, we ll talk to two others who served in the war. and there s real passionate behind their thinking, because they re not just veterans, but representatives of the house and they disagree with much of what s been said. they re good friends, too. they sure are. you ll hear from the two of them when we come back. his shoes! and a third simply doesn t want to be here. until now. until right booking now. planet earth s number one accomodation site booking.com booking.yeah!
we can take this back. we can help the iraqis stiffen their defense of bagdad. we can establish fortress bagdad from which we can sally port and retake the train that we ve lost to this group, this isis group. they re not huge. the iraqi army outnumbers them, outguns them and can outlead them. what we need to do is stiff fin the spine of the iraqi military. we do that by putting senior advisers on the ground to help the iraqis, to link into the intelligence systems that we can provide them, logistics systems we can provide them and, yes, the air power we can provide if we can get action intelligence. thanks so much, general eaton. that sounds like an awful lot to do in a very short period of time. we have allies. we have a natural ally in iran. we have a natural ally in the
join us for the family fun package. doubletree by hilton. where the little things mean everything. welcome back to state of the union. i m gloria borger. i m dana bash. with us is retired army major general paul eaton, he was the commander in charge of training and equipping iraqi forces. i want to put up on the screen another stark number, $20 billion. that s what the u.s. spent to train. probably a conservative figure. i m sure you ve seen the