what we ve seen is the country get re-establish its footing. it s made this a priority. russian economy may be shrinking. the russian defense budget is not shrinking. you had years of buildup. you also remember they had experience in places like georgia. so what we re seeing is a much more capable combined arms russia that s demonstrating what it can do and demonstrating the benefit of what, two decades of military investment. richard haass, stay with us. we greatly appreciate it. coming up next there already 80 million of them 19 to 34 years old swarming the usa and leaving nothing but selfie sticks and gluten free pizza crusts in their wake. that was the comedian louis black s take on millenials. we ll see what time magazine has to say about them in this with s cover story. we ll reveal the new issue just ahead on morning joe.
fact that hamid karzai repeatedly pointed this out publicly. the pakistani army has been described as the godfather of the taliban. that might actually understate its influence. pakistan was the base for the american-supported mujahadin as it battled the soviet union in the 80s. after the soviet union retreated from afghanistan in 1989 the u.s. withdrew almost as quickly and pakistan entered that void. it pushed forward the taliban, a group of young pashtun jihadis schooled in radical islam. now history is repeating itself. as the united states draws down, pakistan against seeks to expand its influence through its longstanding proxy. so what should america do? first, says husain haqqani, pakistan s former ambassador to the united states and the author of magnificent delusions, the u.s. needs to see reality for what it is.
talking about. how it is going to affect your life? there is an employment, unemployment problem. economic problem, all kind of things. university graduates. a million graduates a year come out of topnotch universities in iran, where are they going to get jobs? can t find work. overwhelming what the deal means. in terms of iranian dissidents. i have seen numerous, published, does that sync up with your sense of where that part of the iranian populous is? sure. the only dissidents, hard to call them, exile group, mujahadin, who are only, widely despised in iran for siding with saddam hussein in the war. a complicated group. addressed them before. addressed them before. other than them it is almost universal the support for a nuclear deal. anybody who has either family in iran or cares about iranian people or cares about peace and wanting there to be peace
i look at the number of air sortties, they re very low t. reason is we don t have forward air controllers. so where we don t want collateral damage, so we re not bringing in airstrikes. just to be clear here, you are saying there is a place between the full lindsey graham which is like troops on the ground, actual reinvasion of iraq and what we are doing now, there is room to intensify what the u.s. is doing now with basically the people that are will? with the assets that are there. central command, our military command runs that part of the world has actually probably asked for permission to put advisers forward and been denied. that s what i m hearing. we helped covertly fund and support the mujahadin in afghanistan. that s right. they were some of them became the taliban and al qaeda. i remember a day when they were sitting in my office. yes, exactly. right. if you look at this, the war in iraq which has produced the chaos in iraq and then isis, you know, it s hard to
denied. that s what i m hearing. we helped covertly fund and support the mujahadin in afghanistan. that s right. they were some of them became the taliban and al qaeda. i remember a day when they were sitting in my office. yes, exactly. right. if you look at this, the war in iraq which has produced the chaos in iraq and then isis, you know, it s hard to think we keep creating our own enemies. then how do you break that cycle? well, i don t know. that s a good question. i don t know the answer. i do know this. we got one now. whether you call it isis or dash as the arabs call it. it s a large capable force. it s probably got 25,000 fighters. it controls cities like mosul with a million people it controlsal large swath of land. more land that dozens of countries have. more people than dozens of countries have and it is going to be a terrorist nation