military. the largest single pledge of military assistance to u.s. history in other countries. samantha at the united nation zidisin discussing the u states why why they are calling their dismantlement but at the same time did not veto the proposal that the u.s. would typically expected to do and was expected to do. i want to go back to james peterson at lee high university. you put the question forward, where does the u.s. go from here? this is interesting, they are laying down a marker and this continues the speech by samantha powell continues to find like a defensive israel.
only saw the light of day only viewed by the public for the first time yesterday, when we broke the story. ari, after your ground-breaking report yesterday, i sort of spoke to my sources in the criminal justice community, especially those on capitol hill, and i put the question forward, is there a risk now that police are too trigger-happy when it comes to tasers. great question. almost to a person they said yes, this has been a serious issue. is there a lack of training for officers with tasers? are officers too quick to pull? is that part of the larger question here? i think it s part of the policy question that comes out of incidents like this. i think you raise an important point. what i can tell you in our investigation is we spoke directly to taser international, the leading provider of these weapons, and we looked at a lot of cases. tasers overall when used correctly and appropriately are really a positive law enforcement tool. i spoke to officers who said what they do i
that s still their focus. you have this request from iraq. the question is will the u.s. answer that request. it s disturbing if the iraqi army are indeed handing their weapons over to terrorists. it kind of makes you pause. absolutely. and it also raises a question about that strategy, right? the strategy since the u.s. withdrawal has been to equip, train and equip, these forces. now, if those forces, after billions of dollars in u.s. aid and weaponry and years of training can t stand up to a threat like this, this raises a major question forward. and think about it, carol, not just for iraq but for afghanistan because that s also the plan for afghanistan when u.s. troops withdraw from there. charlie, you wrote an op-ed saying instability threatens the wider world. why should we, as americans, care? because the way that isis is so appealing for foreign fighters to come from the eu, to come from america, to come from other arab countries, they present a big threat in that way b