administration for all its faults realize that you can only spend so many plates at a time and the situation as of all in the middle east and what the democrats have coming back into power and it s almost like they don t they re not recognizing the fact that things have changed i mean a massive sea change and lo and behold in the last 2 weeks the exact same quagmire presented itself on the iraqi and syrian border there were rocket attacks that provoked suppose of the united states to respond to aggression against u.s. bases and reveal iraq and so what did they do they get the high she xabi people s mobilization units positions on the iraqi border with syria and said that that is the you know they re hoping that that s going to deescalate the situation said john kirby the pentagon spokesperson of course it didn t deescalate the situation escalated situation and then al assad air base gets hit again. it s the same base that the the us the iranians that sorry in january of 2020
has your next news update in about 60 minutes cross-talk will be gracing your screens next on mark international and in the u.k. we ll be serving up some relegating stay with us. a low end welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle the binding ministration is still young but its foreign policy particularly in the middle east is an echo of past failures this administration simply does not have a learning curve also does washington really support democracy in the world ukraine s crackdown on independent media should give us all. to discuss these issues. and more i m joined by my guess that attends an employment he is the editor and founder of 21st century wire and here in moscow we re joined by dmitri bobbitt she s a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project hi gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate you know it s going to play if it patrick let s take a look at
presented itself on the iraqi and syrian border there were rocket attacks that provoked supposedly united states to respond to aggression against us bases and reveal in iraq and so what did they do they hit the high she xabi people s mobilization the institutions on the iraqi border with syria and said that that is the you know they re hoping that that s going to deescalate the situation said john kirby of this the pentagon spokesperson of course it didn t deescalate the situation escalated situation and then al assad air base gets hit again this is the same base that they they us the iranians that sorry in january of 2020 that really drew a line under that situation and there s the democrats the obama administration has now reopened that problem and so what they re what they re really doing. it s exposing a failing policy that they re trying to put band and a new band aids on a policy that s way beyond they want to they want to keep the border unstable. in iraq and the iraqi
the you know they re hoping that that s going to deescalate the situation said john kirby of this the pentagon spokesperson of course it didn t deescalate the situation escalated situation and then al assad air base gets hit again this is the same basically they us the iranians that sorry in january of 2020 that really drew a line under that situation and there s the democrats the obama administration has now reopened that problem and so what they re what they re really doing is exposing a failing policy that they re trying to put band a new band-aids on a policy that s way beyond the pale that they want to they want to keep that border unstable. in iraq and and the iraqis don t want that the syrians don t want that they do not want iraq baghdad and damascus to come together and jointly manage that border because that means the end of isis. period and really extremists been allowed to run amok and the situation in north eastern syria where the us are backing the kurdish facti
and i would agree we ve talked about it during the entire time of the administration but it seems like biden is repeating some of the same mistakes like you legally bombing syria and of course getting applauded for him because he suddenly became president listening to become presidential the in your 1st few weeks you bomb someone against international law and so many other elements of this bungling towards iran it s very incoherent and then all while we re being told there s a pivot to asia this is ministration is just ok go ahead you know there are all over the place are always. religiously all over the place so that you ve got the situation in iraq you ve got the situation in syria you ve got the situation in yemen and really it s here it completely beyond the pale situation with alliston in that peace process which the democrats or believe that they re the story all guardians of that process generally so that how many plates can use. and i think the trump administration fo