was sworn into office. off and this time the u.s. responded, killing at least eight iranian fighters in atn least two counterstrikes. but a fefiw hours later, undeterred, iranian proxy forces were at it again.a felaunching a series of new rocket attacks against the u.s. installation in the region, injuring even more us service members. the situation on the ground and over the skies in syria, it is not good to say the least. meanwhile, our commander ingood chief,. joe biden, was in ottawa, canada today having a grand old time adjust with justin and his socialist friends in canada s parliament. watch. good afternoon, mohajer. canada. we re going to move five thousand five hundred electric charging stations. guess some union workers, in the words canadian and colonel john mccrie still call to us from flanders field, echoing their charge through the ages. and i quote it to you, from falling from failure for m me fo to you, from failing hands. t we throw the torch to you t
a no no response yet. that s at least been overt that i m aware of. we had a president say thatinor a minor incursion to ukraine might be okay. these are the kind of things sis that signal the bad guys. you can feel free to move aboutv the cabin. so if you ase k the question,abu how dit d america lose its place in the world so quickly, i think it s a failurea ofit s leadership. i think we re we re back to thea obama years of leading fromaderh behind and apologizing for america. it stour years, we didn ip apologize once for a country. we didn t send the second airborne or marine brigades. we just use american power and american influence in a way that protected the american people. yeah, and cost so symbolic. s soleimani, the baghdad airport, i mean, that sent as powerful a signal as you can imagine.et what woulde: you do? how do we reverse this if t america were to lead properlhiy in a way that the country chanting death to america isn t shooting at our guys, what does that look like
soleimani. what does the iraq prime minister want in terms of the u.s. presence there? reporter: look, poppy, iraq has always been in this extraordinarily difficult position, stuck between the u.s. on the one hand and iran on the other. and following the killing of general soleimani, you had the most powerful backed militias in iraq demanding an exit of all u.s. forces. however, one only needs to look at iraq s history to perhaps gain a bit of an understanding as to why a u.s. presence, no matter what you re going to call it, is potentially quite crucial to the country moving forward. we all remember the end of 2011 when the then obama administration ended up withdraw ing all u.s. forces from iraq. and that ended up effectively helping lay out the groundwork for the re-emerge ence of what s