When we were fighting it and it is just a different environment. If you look at the protest movement over 2013, they remain moderate tone focused on legitimate grievances of the community. The protests in the fallujah taking place every friday were far more militant, far more extremist. It is just a different like different cultures and attitudes. If i could just follow up on congressman deutschs question, you said most of the foreign fighters were syrian . Had come inighters to syria from the greater region thomas jihadist minded people had come in. Theeo speak about what and president s assad. Do they understand that why allowing these flyovers and potentially strengthening our programming prolonging of the regime, they are undermining their ability to take back their own country from the same extremists . Connection . That what is the difference between and assad regime . There is no love lost with Bashar Alassad. He was calling for him to be brought to a criminal court taste upon b
On the issue of the twall at camp liberty, why have there been only 235 out of 17,500 twalls put up . Why we only seen and addition of 43 cents our november subcommittee hearing . Can you please commit that you will put extra effort into saving lives there . And then thirdly, as far as alqaedas research and come to launch part of this is due to the failure of in the Iraqi Government and iraqi leadership since you left the country. Their National Elections planned in iraq in april, we were successful after the surge in getting the Iraqi Government to participate in more inclusive powersharing government. That kind of mollified the sunnis of iraq and left alqaeda marginalized. Then after we left the iraqis took another step backwards. Now was the sunnis were marginalized drawing many of them towards alqaeda. What steps are we taken to ensure that the sunnis are participating in these elections and that iraq can return to that sort of powersharing government we saw in the postsurge iraq .
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] some may argue that the lack of enduring u. S. Troop presence in iraq has contributed to the resurgence of violence, especially sunni terrorism related to al qaeda. But lets be honest, the dire security situation in an bar province is much more about iraqi politics than it is about the United States. In any case, the direct use of u. S. Military force in iraq is virtually unthinkable at this point. Weve withdrawn from iraq and we arent going back. Although we no longer have boots on the ground, however, the u. S. Maintains a huge stake in iraqs security and i think we should continue to provide assistance to the Iraqi Military in the fight against iciss. But we should recognize that the Current Situation in an bar cannot be resolved through military means alone. An all out assault by fallujah on the Iraqi Security forces will play in the hand of isis that they have been victimized by Prime Minister ma la kis government. The gover