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More violent situation there. i think more broadly, it shows that this is a difficult part of the world. you know, any policy response has a low chance of success. and you ve seen the administration try a number of things, not getting involved in syria, syria expanded into iraq. now you have forces going into iraq. we ll see if that makes a difference. you are had a peace effort that failed in the middle east and now you have a situation like this. it shows that it is hard to find outcomes that tr solutions as opposed to just outcomes in this part of the world. thank you so much. now to iraq and the possibility of even more american forces being sent there. this as you can imagine is sparking growing concern about mission creep. correspondent barbara starr working that story for us. what are you hearing, barbara? brianna, officially the pentagon says it s absolutely not mission creep but i have to tell you, i ve talked privately to several military officers who are worried it is ju ....
Americans and get out of there? is the mission to resupply and support the iraqi army on the ground? i don t think we ve heard a clear explanation from the president or the secretary of defense exactly what we re doing there. i know we re there to advise. and now perhaps, brianna, one of the real questions is the status of the iraqi forces if the fighting were to come to baghdad. will the iraqis stand and fight? a big outstanding question. barbara, thank you so much. let s talk about all of this with rear admiral john kirby, the pentagon press secretary. he s we still of course, our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto here, as well. this was interesting to me. we heard in barbara s report the concern about mission creep, that there are several military officers who are worried that that is the case. how is that not a major concern here? well, obviously, we re always concerned about mission. the mission is very clear. there s sort of two tracks to ....