the people of isis. i agree with general petraeus. i would love to see a coalition government. the problem is and my concern, is that we can t wait until that happens before we now come in and stop the onslaught of isis. if we do, you may have a fall of the iraqi state. if the iraqi state falls, you ll never be able to build it back up. you have to take it into consideration in terms of how you re dealing with al maliki and many of the isis, isis is moving across iraq. a lot of sunnis are joining them. that s a problem. so we re having, we re joining shia and fighting sunni. congresswoman, not long ago, president obama and vice president biden were practically giddy about prospects for iraq. take a listen. iraq s not a perfect place. it has many challenges ahead. but we re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant iraq. i am very optimistic about, about iraq. i think it s going to be one of
rematch. she looked pretty good by the end of the game. a reminder is cnn s original series, the sixties the war in vietnam. can you watch it live, or set your dvr for 9:00 p.m. eastern. thank you so much for watching, im brianna keilar and now into the crossfire. today president obama announced a number of steps to prevent a terrorist takeover in iraq. unfortunately nothing he announced shows us he s moving out of george w. bush s shadow. the debate starts right now. tonight on crossfire. chaos spreads in iraq. president obama offers u.s. military advisers. american combat troops are not going to be fighting in iraq again. the threat of terrorism has increased exponentially under this president s leadership. on the left, stephanie cutter, on the right, secubb. in the crossfire, representative
but there is no bench on the republican side of the aisle absent just basically saying, let s send troops in terms of thinking of thoughtful, responsible foreign policy approaches to some of our greatest problems right now. i think that will come out in all fairness, when you saw president obama talk about his plan when he was running, he didn t have a lot of details, either. he just said no iraq he got it right. he called afghanistan the good war. now he s in a hurry to leave it i think we have a deep bench. it s going to be developed. it s pretty early. we still have jeb bush, chris christie, a lot of good candidates that as time goes on, they re going to develop their foreign policy chops. okay. congresswoman sanchez, the president has assisted over and over again that al qaeda has been decimated and the world is a safer place and i think a lot of us would disagree. he s fond of one particular metaphor to use when it comes to reasons why we should not be fighting terrori
whack-a-mole, wherever these terrorist organizations may pop up, we have to build effective partnerships, make sure they have capacity. you know, i remember playing whack-a-mole, and it s a fun metaphor, but it s not completely honest. that implies that that s not what s happening right now. these terrorist organizations are multiplying and expanding. they re not just in iraq. they re in syria, they re in the magreb, indonesia. isn t he being dishonest about how serious and wide ranging this threat is? look, threats are all around the world. and if we re smart, we understand that our military is just one of the tools we have in our bag of tricks to be able to handle situations. and, you know, our military is the best educated, the best equipped, and the best trained
those are all great ideas, and this is a doozy from last night when another wannabe commander-in-chief said specifically, what do we do now? lots of people are for airstrikes rurks for airstrikes? i think there are a number of ways, we don t have to signal all the things that we re going to do. i asked rick perry last night about a half dozen times, would he suggest we do in iraq. and never got a clear answer. so thanks to all the wannabe presidents for your glittering generalities and statements of the obvious, but being president means dealing with the details. and thinking through the consequences of military intervention. sadly, i don t hear any of that serious work being done on the republican side of the aisle. in the crossfire tonight, representatives loretta sanchez and adam kinzinger, congressman, with the exception of you i was going to say no offense. you re a veteran of these wars, you served in the air force, you still serve. and we honor that service.