necessary. but everybody told me if malaki doesn t follow up on this, if he doesn t reach out, if the government isn t inclusive. if he doesn t share power and the distribution of resources down to the provincial and district levels, this will all collapse. you could say american troops should have stayed longer. but you weren t going to hold things together if eventually we didn t change or malaki didn t change. i think what has to happen now is to rethink the structure of this government. you know, the kurds, for all practical purposes, are autonomous. the shia areas in the south are much their own masters. i think there is going to be some brokering of autonomy or semi-autonomy, especially in the sunni areas to put them on an equal par with the other two. if that doesn t happen, you re just going to see this chronic problem repeating itself time after time. it would mean and perhaps we
important than the military itself. they have a reason to fight. they have a reason to fight. malaki doesn t is control over them. if you re malaki now, would malaki rather have the support of the united states eventually which he thinks he ll get eventually because we won t let them fall, plus the iranians or basically say, screw you, to the iranians and shia. i m bringing in the sunnis, the people you hate. seals his calculations have to be to wait a couple of weeks, hang on here. if i can get the united states to come in and iranians i have this won. while should malaki change? i believe he thinks he can have both u.s. support when he needs it, even over a complaint. and the backing of the iranians without having to give up a lot to either one. it remains to be seen whether that works. that appearses to be what he s betting. people marry each other saying, he ll change. no. mike myers said that s a wish
as the general was just finishing up, there is not an appetite amongst the voters to do the right thing. now, i m listening to john mccain and lindsey graham and to them what s happening today is repellent in light of what was done there ten years ago. we can t just let it end this way. there s no appetite amongst the president s people. there isn t even an appetite in the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who doesn t serve the president well by giving him the proper military advice and telling him what he thinks he wants to hear. i don t think the president can accomplish this by air power, and there s no appetite for boots on the ground. but something must be done to stabilize the area and not to have caused everything that happened before this to be totally wasted. juan? well, the u.s. clearly has a stake here. you think back to what the president has laid out as his policy. i don t think there s any question there s a real reason for us to get involved here, and that is to
in baghdad meeting with malaki to say, we are here to protect you. this is the whole thing seems like a powder keg. yes. it s not surprising. kasim saul manny is a major adviser to assad in syria, and they look at syria as a client state. they provided thousands of quds force to assist assad to stay in power. he sees the opportunity. he s looking at the united states. malaki has been asking for some support for a couple of months. it we haven t been giving him much of anything. he sees that opportunity, and if malaki doesn t get the help he needs to hold on, he ll look to the iranians, to sole manny. you should know and the viewing audience should know that he s the one that organized hezbollah against the israelis in 2006, the guys who trained the shia militia in iran to conduct operations against u.s. forces exclusively with advanced ieds. this is a bad actor on the world
they have a reason to fight. they have a reason to fight. malaki doesn t is control over them. if you re malaki now, would malaki rather have the support of the united states eventually which he thinks he ll get eventually because we won t let them fall, plus the iranians or basically say, screw you, to the iranians and shia. i m bringing in the sunnis, the people you hate. seals his calculations have to be to wait a couple of weeks, hang on here. if i can get the united states to come in and iranians i have this won. while should malaki change? i believe he thinks he can have both u.s. support when he needs it, even over a complaint. and the backing of the iranians without having to give up a lot to either one. it remains to be seen whether that works. that appearses to be what he s betting. people marry each other saying, he ll change. no. mike myers said that s a wish sandwich. why do we think i remember a case totally irrelevant, but these are important points. i