and peter burger s book was just published, trump and his generals, the cost of chaos. and we ll speak in a moment. but right now this attack, it is unclear who is behind us and a string of attacks in iraq by iranian-backed militias, how big of a roche is iran for the u.s. right now? well i would say iran is a big problem for iraq. think about the protesters in iraq and they are anti-iranian and you re seeing a nationalist iraqi protesters getting out in the streets and thousands have been killed, protesting what they see as pro-iran government which is caused the collapse the prime minister had to resign. the president offered his resignation. so this is all part of a larger scene which is there is a lot of unhappiness about iran influence in iraq and some of that is directed at the american troops that remain there. but we re still in a war zone in iraq and afghanistan. we have an american serveman killed in afghanistan in the
taliban to the table? i think they are ready to come to the table with the afghan regime. but they haven t wanted to in the past because they felt the united states was leaving. the third thing, something that is important we learned from iraq, is are the forces inserted going to focus on a counterterrorism campaign? in other words, train the afghan counterterrorism force, as opposed to the entire army. we saw successes with that in iraq. there could be the same things going on with afghanistan. peter burger, you and i spent time in afghan stab together. it seems that the forces that had successes. but in terms of training the afghan national army, the national police force, it seems like there s been a lot of talk about that and a lot of money put into it. and still, the same problems seem to exist, year after year after year.