Not to create an empire, not to build an empire, not to force people to speak english and to follow american ways, but so they could be free to choose the way in which they should go. Countries historically have not done that, and we have. Hasnow that generous nature been used by this administration ntil its become a vice. A vice that would allow our allies to be killed and oppressed and persecuted because were going to let the bullies take over. Not only did we watch and let bullies take over in other parts of the world, we saw the ashe spring, that in the not so distant future would become a jewish and christian winter, a bleak, miserable winter for jews and christians and secularists. And we demanded that the leader of egypt be ousted. Never mind that this administration had agreements with the egyptian leader, president. E turned our back on them. The soviet after union fell and the United States , particularly the clinton administration, if i understand it, they guaranteed ukraine
Come in and take out that encampment. I understand that this request went all the way up in the administration and was turned down. I am trying to get to the bottom of why. Particularly over the latter course of 2013. Poured out of the camps, particularly when they started to be hit and moved into the cities. But again, this is with a retrofitted cessna airplane. At least this is what i understand, from the iraqis, that they were trying to deal with in order to express that. Can you imagine how effective it would have been with something, you know, a platform that could really delivery something more than a hellfire . I also just want to correct the record. When the request did come in may, formal request for direct air support, that request never went up as being denied. Its under active consideration. Theres never been a denial. Thats like saying if i could interrupt you. I remember Elliott Engel making the point three years ago about support for the Free Syrian Army when there were
Was that a tactical surprise on the part of the sil or did we have intelligence that suggested they were mustering and were about to move or did the iraqis have that intelligence . And if we did what was wrong with that and secondly, you talked about how the suicide bombers turned and twisted logic has become the most precious resource, and in november of 2012, there were three suicide bombers and that has gone up to 50. What is the scope on that or is that continuously expanding . Do we expect to be at 100 by next year or is that if you could speak to that issue. Third, to point out that sis you quoted that on january 21 how seriously is the threat to baghdad . Fourth, if you could comment you point out the isil the maliki soldiers did not take the bait. Is that something that is ongoing; are they executing prisoners in the center of falluja or the central part as yohe would say in falluja . And when it comes to the issue of christians, the report commission of religious freedom point
On the issue of the twall at camp liberty, why have there been only 235 out of 17,500 twalls put up . Why we only seen and addition of 43 cents our november subcommittee hearing . Can you please commit that you will put extra effort into saving lives there . And then thirdly, as far as alqaedas research and come to launch part of this is due to the failure of in the Iraqi Government and iraqi leadership since you left the country. Their National Elections planned in iraq in april, we were successful after the surge in getting the Iraqi Government to participate in more inclusive powersharing government. That kind of mollified the sunnis of iraq and left alqaeda marginalized. Then after we left the iraqis took another step backwards. Now was the sunnis were marginalized drawing many of them towards alqaeda. What steps are we taken to ensure that the sunnis are participating in these elections and that iraq can return to that sort of powersharing government we saw in the postsurge iraq .
As the U.S. focuses on big global challenges and gets away from American costs in blood and treasure in the Middle East, it must not walk away all together from supporting its allies and friends in the region.