for example, iraq is asking the question are we next, are we th next country to be abandoned fo eight our enemies he saw the brightman team cave in they are seeing the collapse in afghanistan under the same team. our enemies couldn t be happier about what s happening, and thi will have consequences throughout southwest asia in th middle east as well. what are some countries that you think have this sort of violence under pendant there or resurgence in terrorist activit that could be difficult? what we saw during the sprin is the fighters left afghanista to go kill in these other countries, so we saw the fracturing of syria, and we saw the fracturing of iraq. there are countries on the verg of the middle east. jordan as one of those countries . foreign fighters will go to afghanistan to receive training.
there any year in a half, in keeping the tallow ban at bay was a relatively small number o u.s. troops. i don t buy it, and here s why. if the whole argument for being in afghanistan continuing to tr to push democracy on afghanista is to keep al qaeda else. they have present throughout th middle east. and by the arguments. by that argument, we have to occupy the entire middle east. while we re added, how about let s occupy china and russia two because the real battlefiel of the future it s going to be cyber warfare. i m not buying it. i think these people have refused to acknowledge reality on the ground in afghanistan an they have done the american people in an armistice surface.
ambush, the north korea threat. plus this. when isis began grow iing in th middle east, they claimed the city of its capital, but it has taken three years now, but u.s.-backed forces have driven the terroristsof this struggle.
relationship between two countries. the united states trade with china. the two most significant economies in the world cannot be compared to the insignificant amount of trade taking place with cuba. the importance of tourkey in th middle east as a significant ally of the united states, as a nation that is a nato partner, but is also pivotal in the middle east situation also cannot be compared to the relationship with cuba. what cuba has been doing has been contrary to being an ally of the united states. for instance, it s been meddling in venezuela. it has a client state in venezuela. the debts taking place on the streets today are in part being directed by the cuban military and security apparatus, operating in venezuela. cuba was caught a couple years ago trading arms with north korea. these are not things that are hypothetical events. these are things, when you have a country that is looking to work with us, china s importance to north korea, the number one