Iraq. Is on the highest agenda, the highest place on the agenda. The retaking of mosu. L. You were there during the iraq war. It will Say Something about the plight of isis. It has a lot of meaning. Give me a sense of how you see it. Gen. Petraeus it does. It has symbolic meaning, and very tangible meaning. There is no question were going to defeat the Islamic State in mosul and throughout iraq. The real issue actually is post Islamic State governance, the capital of which is mosul, an area i was privileged to serve during the 101st Airport Division in baghdad. This is the most complex human terrain in all of iraq. Manyni arab majority, kurds. Many of them have grievances against of them, and even rivalries within the sectarian groups. It is very, very complex. Frankly, it is what be far more challenging this moment than defeating the Islamic State. It will be a tough fight. There will be a city battle. Isis has dug in, improvised explosive device is, but no question it will be defeate
Gen. Petraeus thank you, charlie. Charlie let us begin with iraq. It is on the highest agenda, the highest place on the agenda, the retaking of mosul. It has symbolic value. You were there during the iraq war. It will Say Something about the plight of isis. It has a lot of meaning. Give me a sense of how you see it. Gen. Petraeus it does. It has symbolic meaning, and very tangible, physical meaning. There is no question that were going to defeat the Islamic State in mosul and throughout iraq. The real issue actually is postIslamic State governance, the capital of which is mosul, an area i was privileged to serve during the 101st Airport Division in baghdad. This is the most complex human terrain in all of iraq. A sunni arab majority, many kurds, christians. Many of them have grievances against each other, and there are even rivalries within the sectarian groups. It is very, very complex. Frankly, it is going to be far more challenging in this moment, than defeating the Islamic State. I
With a remembrance of shimon peres. The greatest thing that makes me satisfied is to really t is the greatest pleasure. I dont think the world say plesh i think to serve is a pleasure. Rose pet ray us pets rayus and peres when we continue. Funding for charlie rose is rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by the following and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose David Petraeus is here, the former director of the cia, served 37 years in the u. S. Military. He commanded u. S. Troops in iraq during the 2007, 2008 surge. He also Led Coalition forces in afghanistan from 2010 until 2011. With the collapse of the ceasefire in syria, and as Coalition Forces ready to retake mosul from isis, im especially pleased to have general petraeus back at this table. Pel welcome. Thanks, charlie. Great to be back with you. Rose there is so much i wan
Henhen hence downward prices on gasoline. When our country produces more, that helps bring down the overall price. So the gasoline prices at the pump arent linked to west texas intermediate crud. Theyre linked to brent crude. When we empower our industry to grow and expand and produce more supply, that helps bring down prices, prices for oil globally, prices for gas at the pump. That benefits consumers. That benefits Small Businesses across this great country. So, again, the studies done by the entities and others show that on a longterm secular basis, gasoline prices are lower by lifting the Oil Export Ban because were part of the global supply. The United States produces more supply globally. So it benefits consumers. Second, lets talk about our economy. Thats pretty obvious, isnt it . If we have a growing, expanding, thriving energy industry, producing more oil and gas in this country, that leads to more jobs. Good paying jobs of all kinds, everything from the roughneck out there at
Because if they dont, we cant then use their plans to provide the coverage that we want to provide. Now, you can still have a debate about whether that is the least restrictive means of doing all this, but i dont see really how you can have a debate at that point about whether there is a substantial burden on religion because youre comipelling peope do something and if they dont, they have to pay millions of dollars this penal ciin penalti. Every court below that has gone the other way. Im not sure the government will fair nearly as well before the Supreme Court on that piece. But we shall see. Im agreeing with you that to the extent it turns on the fact of the government providing information, but i dont think the governme cases turn on that. Ill turn then to the press. Questions. Yeah. Will atmospherics on kim davis affect the justices thoughts on this . Kim davis is raising a claim under the kentucky state rifra. Her case is obviously a little different because shes a public officia