struggle to shore up their foundering pillars of the soviet system to somehow weld together the unwieldy behemoths that was coming apart at the seams when for us when you can more freedom and he even legalized private bonuses. we try to correct most but it was the beginning of the end of the so that you know because remember so that model was based on the repression and on shia problem of. the problem is that any system especially a totalitarian one can only exist as a whole because the attempt to introduce new elements leads to its destruction. this destruction began in the baltic states in the three republics which had been the last to join the soviet union. billet the way in ian s
turn them and get them to support the government in the baghdad. so that is proving much more problematic right now. and many of those sunni sheikhs are really afraid to strike out against the al qaeda elements. so it s very discouraging news for people who have worked so hard to try to stabilize that country and certainly i think dangerous. chris, you re talking about sunni militants. they re angry the way they re being treated by the shiite government of nuri al malakar. and now they re an ined with al qaeda. how do you stop something like that? you know, i mean, i realize esthere s certainly a body of thought that somehow the shia-led government under nuri al malaki has not done enough to be inclusive of the sunnis and that this has led to some frustrations but i would encourage the viewers to understand this problem is embedded in a broader region,
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failure? well, i mean, certainly the question of iraq and the invasion is something that history books will look at for a long time. obviously, a lot of good things have happened. certainly one can t spend ten minutes in the country without thinking it was a good thing that saddam hussein is gone. but the notion that the united states or specifically the u.s. military could deal with some of the political, the underlying sectarian and political issues, those are issues that need to be sorted out by the iraqis and it s going to take some time. would you advise the obama administration to start bringing american troops back into iraq if things just simply turn into turmoil? i mean, it is the mess that the united states in some ways created. well, first of all, i don t think we created the mess. i think the sunni/shia problem has been there for a long time. we will may have underappreciated thinking the real fault line in iraq was somehow between those who is believe in democracy an