state of the union candy crowley. secretary of state john kerry will be going to iraq soon. what is going to be the focus of his visit? i think exactly what you just talked about. there is great disappoint and has been for some time, actually, with prime minister maliki, both on capitol hill and at the house. they feel that part of the reason that sectarian violence has grown again, part of the reason we are where we are is that maliki took over and was not inclusive of the kurds and was not inclusive of the sunnis and it made the march of isis that much easier. so secretary of state kerry, i m sure, is there to deliver that message. how blunt it will be will be interesting. because when the president sort of signaled his dismay with maliki before, he said but the u.s. can t be in the business of telling iraq who to put in as their leader but nonetheless, they have made it quite clear
on that, because she says maliki has got to reach out to other forces to sunni forces within the country. well, look, i am coming to the dreadful realization that possibly this administration might just not do anything very much. they have really it appears given up on maliki. obama saying that stuff and tonight i thought hillary clinton went very forward leaning in just dismissing maliki and putting the blame on him and they have not come up with any military plan to stop the march of isis. i m wondering whether they are going to give up and see the chips fall where they may, perhaps the partition of iraq. there was a question from the audience about gun control, gun violence, secretary clinton jumped on that. she did. in fact, she was the most forward leaning i ve heard. i haven t heard her on many domestic issues. she did talk about a small
other forces to sunni forces within the country? well, look, i kind of am coming to the dreadful realization that possibly this administration might just not do anything very much. they have really it appears given up on maliki. obama has been saying that kind of stuff. and tonight i thought hillary clinton went very forward-leaning in just dismissing maliki and putting all the blame on him. and they have not come up with any military plan to stop the march of isis. so i m wondering whether they are going to give up and see the chips where they may. perhaps see a partition of iraq. there is also there was a question from the audience about gun control, gun violence. secretary clinton jumped on that. she did. in fact, she was the most forward leaning i ve heard. i haven t heard her on many domestic issues. but she really did talk about a small minority who terrorized the majority, that the majority
should have happened or not, is there a pottery barn rule as to whether the united states government has the responsibility of dealing with iraq in a way that it wouldn t with other countries? chuck, as you may know, i voted against the war in iraq when i was in the house of representatives. now the question is, what s in the national security interest of the united states? i would simply say while i don t advocate bringing boots on the ground in order to stop the march of isis, the challenge is what is in our interest? what are the consequences to us? and in that regard, we have to both think about whether or not there s targeted and limited in duration strikes that may be able to change the tide. and also i hope the administration is not thinking about engaging iran. it was iran that trained shia militias in which many of our wounded warriors bear the scars of. duly noted on that last
president obama came into so you to deal with reality. you find it when you are given the responsibility this is president obama had the responsibility to stablize situation. he did not now we are living with the consequences. this is one of your democratic counter part bob menend menendez. take a listen. i don t have advocate bringing boots on the ground in order to stop the march of isis. the challenge is, what is in our interest. what are the consequences to us. in that regard, we have to both think about whether or not there is targeted and limited in duration strikes. do you agree with senator menendez? first of all, our first action should be to reach out to the moderate sun eyes to see how disgisted with maliki.