announcement of grand ie toll la who has been a moderating influence who basically said we need a fresh start. let me ask you this question. it s a blunt question. the u.s. trained hundreds of thousands of iraqi security forces, police and military, provided the best reps, spent billions and billions of dollars, did everything possible to give political stability to maliki and his government. there s a few thousand rag tag terrorists come in from syria and they take over a city of 2 million people and the iraqi military flees, they rip off their uniforms and they throw down their weapons? here is the thing many american don t get. i was minister of interior in 2004. the americans put a lot of emphasis on training. but you cannot train people who are unqualified. the recruiting was done wrong.
talk way senior administration official about this asking whether or not this official had any thoughts on putin having this phone call with maliki. obviously, it raises all sorts of questions as we with syria. the white house has deemed russia and vladimir putin to be serious proxies to be partners almost in that country. and what i heard back from this official is no thoughts at this point yet. they don t want to weigh in. they know obviously the russian president can talk with any world leader that he wants to. but to come one day after the president announced this somewhat risky military action in iraq, it certainly got a lot of people s attention at the who us. thanks very much. jim, thanks to you, as well. still ahead, a nerve-racking waiting game as a hillside crumbles from underneath a major hospital. we re going live there. stand by for that. but up next, the latest on the u.s. plans to send more military advisors to iraq, the
i don t think this is going be a showstopper at all. let s be precise because it s a sensitive issue. the 300 special operations forces, the delta force, the navy seals, the green berets, the president spoking about yesterday, will they have diplomatic immunity or will they have the immunity provided visiting u.s. military personnel as part of a status of forces agreement based on what you know? they ll have something different than the protections that are given to state department personnel. but it will be something unique, something different and tailored to their mission and what they re doing in the country. nuri al maliki is on board? we were asked to come in by the government of iraq. this is a discussion we re having. we re confident we re going to get there. will the u.s. also be involved not only going after isis forces in iraq but also in neighboring syria? because there s a lot more isis forces in syria. they re moving into iraq. there s a lot more in syria right
a lot of eczema lish shah men who were almost ill lit rate were given rank well beyond their capability. then there was corruption, people started buying military i rack for money, for american dollars. when you buy your position with dollars, that s an investment. you want to get that back. we had the or ren douse situation of iraqi army officers effectively kidnapping local people so they can collect money to release them. when you have an army like this, it s not invested in the defense of the country, invested in itself. do you have any confidence at all in the prime minister maliki? not all of the blame can be placed on mr. maliki. a lot of i can be. only 99% of it. he s got to go, right?
ongoing, dealing with al-qaeda and the remnants that still exist, creating plat forms, taking targeted strikes where necessary, gathering intelligence. all that work has to be done, would have to be done even if the crisis in iraq wasn t occurring. and there s no doubt that the problem in syria is one that we ve been paying a lot of attention to over the last couple of years. as you see see had ijihad diss from australia to get trained and then going back into their home countries. this is something we re deeply concerned about. par of the reason we re supporting an effort in syria is to make sure that there are forces that are countering some of the gains that some of these extremist organizations have made inside of syria. but that s different from whether we had the capacity, for example, to send ore own troops