into the med. you ve mentioned lebanon and iran. lebanon has the shia militia, hezbollah, which controls the southern half of the country. the reason they back assad, they want to move weapons back and forth between iran and lebanon. so your domino effect is the right one. the u.s. lashes out at syria. russia lashes back at the u.s. in the mediterranean. we look at then another sort of regional war scenario like 2008 and you have the americans fighting the russians, the lebanese step in, they go into syria, iran comes in and then the big dramatic x factor which we haven t even talked about is saudi arabia. you re absolutely right. the general when i asked him earlier said it s a tall order. it certainly is a tall order. i ve got to say, cal, those pictures of you, wow. were you 12? yes. very young. msnbc s cal perry, thank you. thank you. president trump says he s
after them from the air. what can you tell us about this, if this is happening? yes, this is part of the coalition which iran has with russia and with assad in syria. and the great humanitarian disaster that s occurring as a result is that as these shia militia, the aloeites aligned with shia, as they press their war against the sunni majority, against coalition-supported forces there, what is happening is that 7 million syrians have been displaced. now, these are primarily sunnis. part of it has been displaced by isis, it s true, but most of it has been displaced by the hezbollah militia, by the rogc iranian forces that assist them
security forces have cut and run and left their weapons for isis at a few opportunities and these weapons are getting into the hands of the shia militia. i want to point out something that happened in the while we were going through the armed services committee hearing process for the national defense authorization act, where i co-sponsored an amendment that would authorize the u.s. government directly arming the kurds and the shias. we had a leader of the this shia militia, muqtada al sadr as we were going through this hearing live he said if this bill is passed we will have no choice but to unfreeze the military wing that deals with the americans so it can start targeting american interests, both in and outside of iraq. so when you look at this, these are the people that the united states is aligning itself with who are essentially saying we are going to come out and attack you if you don t do what we want. and congressman, i want to ask you this, because you heard some fello
the they differ from us in policy generally, but they re the only ones on the ground so far with real force strength there. that s exactly the problem. this war will be won by militia, shia militia, the christian militias, even controlling their own territories and each kicking out isis. can you protect the christians? a lot of us who are christians have a particular concerns. have you been able to protect them yet? well we give them the tools to protect themselves. that s the mission of sons of liberty international. the way we do it is entirely by public support. we provide the training through free and through our website, we accept support from the public to be able to fund it. what visa do you need to get into these fighting area? to get into iraq you get a visa when you show up in erbil. easy for an american. a little sloppy but i guess you re doing great work. take care. thank you. take care of your guys over
correspondent kim gattiss, and what a prestigious group. i want to start with david. is this the plan for the ground war against isis iran? i don t think it s the plan. but it s the reality. the reality is the boots on the ground are iranian, iraqi and kurdish. the 60-person coalition we ve heard about is not the point of the spear. we re flying air support for, which is a bizarre twist are we strafing the other side? i don t think we re doing that. we say we re not coordinating with them. which means she s an iraqi, i call her, you re an iranian, she calls you. so we re going through that games gamesmanship. iran is having a great obama presidency. in this instance, two force, the shia militia, who are real