with taiwan. love to sit down and talk with them about that. bill: flip it around. you write the following. america could enhance its east asia military posture by increasing u.s. military sales to taiwan and stationing military personnel and assets there. probably negotiating favorable financial terms. china would see that as instigation. well, they would see it, i think, they should see it as a response to their building islands and air and naval bases in the south china sea. we had military facilities in taiwan for many years until jimmy carter derecognized the republic of china in 1979 and congress responded with the taiwan relationships and we have plenty authority to increase our military relationship. if china doesn t watch it. it is an urgent subject for discussion. bill: let s get together and talk. some people would argue you are adding fuel to the fire there.
seems as if the iranians did not want to hold them for very long and president obama and the administration are going to look at this as an indication now of their efforts and in essence a start to a new military relationship with the united states. so i, in this sense, it s very positive you know from a relationship standpoint, it s also positive from that military standpoint and that could pay dividends for us when we are dealing with izeiss sis. iranian as well as an american fight t. iranians made a calculated decision here to really do things concretely that would help improve their stature in the eyes of the u.s. i think that s what we re seeing here at the moment. there are two conflicting actions the u.s. and americans need to analyze right now. number one the fact that iran did seize and arrest these ten u.s. sailors. held them in custody. secondly, they released them the next day.
spillover and threat by isis and iran threat even though the deal is being done, the nuclear deal, the u.s. and israel still concerned about iran s other activity. there is still a lot of bad blood. president obama, netanyahu not going to be best friends but realize they have a lot of work to do together and i thought the comments today reflected that. i thought it was significant the president said the u.s., israeli military to military relationship, intelligence cooperation is better than its ever been before. thanks very much. let s bring back andre carson of the house intelligence committee. do you know, congressman, why these two americans in jordan were killed? well, as was stated by the police officer or police captains relative there is he was certainly disgruntled but a history of mental health issues. we have to know our u.s. military is on the ground
to gain one or two more man dates. so netanyahu is ready to sacrifice the special relations between israel and the u.s. for gaining more votes before elections in israel. now that is a serious charge because in israel the tradition is not to use the american relationship, by far the most important economic military relationship the nation has for political goals. that is a big charge. and to be fair netanyahu administration has denied that and said this is about iran and foreign policy. but toure, when you look at this and the politics around it you can t help but think the building support on the right and the center right in israel there are credible people there that think this is too political and thus bad on two levels. that is right. there is a letter from 180 former security generals who said this address will do more
president obama said on thursday that he would be sending those 300 military advisers not combat troops into iraq to help with intelligence and training of iraqi security forces. they are not on the ground yet. molly, is president obama concerned at all about iraq breaking apart? yes, concerned about that and concerned about some kind of full-blown civil war. president obama says he wants to see if iraqi leaders, including iraqi prime minister nuri al malaki, can rise above religious and tribal differences and compromise. if they can t, the president said in a media interview, quote, there s no amount of american firepower that is going to be able to hold that country together. the white house says the president s top priority is the safety of u.s. personnel in iraq, but he believes that the 300 military advisers might help iraqis quell the insurgency. there has been an enduring military to military relationship between the united