A warm welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me making arrant our top story this hour the u. N. Security council has held an emergency meeting must after reports 33 circles soldiers were killed during an offensive by Syrian Forces now syrias representative to the u. N. Said the Turkish Military presence in italy is preventing damascus from fighting terrorists on its own territory turkeys u. N. Envoy in return stated that ankara intends to maintain its military posture there. We will not abandon. And well continue or reinforcements. Are all the my country is combating terrorism in its own territory and we are committed to using tools to defend our people and the unity of syria. In response to the ongoing violation of the cease fire within the zone the syrian army has every right to subdue the terrorists the assad regime russia and iran must halt their offensive before more innocent civilians are killed and displaced the president s of russia and turkey have held a phone
Come to a resting place where theres been able to be harmony throughout these governments and i would agree with you that it is just completely difficult to have this kind of long term intervention at this point i would i would certainly agree limiting the u. S. Footprint but the problem is 2 things one you know that resolution is obviously nonbinding its sort of a sentiment from the legislature weve still got reality on the ground of being able to do things and i think the u. S. Doesnt want to have. You no longer term iranian influence whether a certain extent stand without having something i would also dispute isnt it but isnt that really up to the iraqi people i mean why should someone sitting in washington d. C. Determine what kind of friendships a foreign country a sovereign country like iraq should have it seems very heavy handed and i dont see how it adds to American Foreign policy interests go ahead. Well i think youre i know you are right i mean the fact is theyve already had
Say peace loving after after the attack so its the iranians feel its the other way around but more importantly i think the iranians believe that the americans have made probably the biggest mistake. That theyve made among the many mistakes that theyve made over the past decade and that is that theyve turned the iraqi people against the United States theyve turned the iranian people against the United States and theyve united iran in iraq in a way which we havent seen before you know chris youre in iraq war veteran i mean talk about that because thats essentially whats happened and if you look at whats coming out of the pentagon and other places of power in washington d. C. What where does democracy actually stand now in iraq because it was invaded under the auspices to bring democracy to iraq now they have a parliament in the form of the Parliament Says thats time to go home but washington says on not so fast so what is the value of the democracy that was forced upon the iraqi people i
He is founder of American Veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate well let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the United States iran and the entire region and were going to talk a lot about iraq here where do things stand right now because if we look at it from tweets and what not you know a ran his decided to stand down how do you feel about that being interim go ahead. I think iran feels that trump stood down because when the iranians. Launch the missiles all of them passed through the the air defenses and hit their targets so they were both accurate and the americans were unable to intercept them. So that was a major success and i think that was a signal to washington that all the
Past week weve heard a lot about escalation deescalation and what is proportionate weve also heard the words war this is how the u. S. Ran complex describe what is not talked enough about is the necessity of ending the American Military presence in the middle east these endless wars must cease. Talking the us around conflict im joined by my guest Mohammad Marandi and to him hes a professor at the university of toronto in washington we have christopher and i when he is founder of American Veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with a monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate when home and let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the United States iran and the entire region and were going to talk a lot about iraq here where do thing