Accordingly. when i look at all the changing of the names on bar recollection and bases and what not, this is all made up stuff that happened over the course of the past few years. how many guys you serve with said i don t want to serve at fort benning or bragg because they are confederate generals. in eight years active duty of the thousands of conversation that is i have had this was never a bone of contention. any complaints on that? i served at a.p. hill, at no point did we even ask who is a.p. hill, i could open a history book and read about what he did in the civil war and later when i got my masters i found out about it, oh, that makes sense but people on the ground aren t analyzing that and there is some, it s not our job to rewrite history. it s our job to learn from it and then evolve and go forward but this whole rewriting of history is troublesome. on top of that, now that we re bringing this to the
that s exactly right. president erdogan has been on the phone with president putin. it s reported in russia that he s agreed in the coming days to go meet with president putin. so the messaging is pretty clear to president trump. i have another friend. so i can negotiate here. i i have leverage. now, look. the reality on the ground in syria is that not everything is going president erdogan s way. we re hearing now that the pro-dough mass cuss syrian forces are in kobani and that russian forces are at least surrounding that famous town where the americans and the kurds fought isis. that is inside the 20-mile corridor that president erdogan has said that he wants to create inside syria. so the facts on the ground aren t going entirely turkey s way. but i ve got to say and i said it yesterday, it appears to me right now that the negotiation
Related event. president after president after president has done it after tram danz those have been some of the most important moments. people on ground aren t looking for you to solve their problems or to an wage their concerns or fears or even their sorrow. they re looking for someone to be there with them. that s the toughest thing for him. we know that this is a president who likes wins, who likes to brag and show what a great job is being done by him, by his federal response. he has to resist that urge. even drew criticism by talking about the mir cue lus response of police which kept more people from being killed. people were like we appreciate our police, but if 59 people are dead, i don t know how that miraculous that is. he has to watch his words and tendency to want to use superlatives and praise people. it s good to praise the heroes that we saw in las vegas but he really has 0 keep this somber. back here in washington, one of the interesting subplots is predictably, th
Much broader problem which is the collapse of iraq. is the fight over ramadi the turning point? you notice isis isn t even trying to attack the shia areas of iraq. they know the shia will defend that zealously. they have stopped fighting the kurds though they may go back. they know kurds will fight. the whole issue is who will govern the sunni areas of iraq and that s the same tribes in syria. if the government of iraq can t win over sunnis to the extent they want to fight for this government, i think there s no amount of american airpower or frankly troops on the ground, 10,000 american troops on the ground aren t going to change that. fareed zakaria, tough questions. thanks so much for being with us. appreciate it. fareed, thanks so much. you can watch fareed on sundays at 10:00 here on cnn.
Political settlement that gets all of iraq s competing sects, the sun anys, the shias and the kurds working together with a government that they can believe in ands that s something this country has certainly lacked and u.s. officials believe is part of the reason that is being pulled apart at the seams right now. when you say military action, do you mean air strikes? air strikes, yes. the president has said he will send up to 300 military advisers. they will not be boots on the ground. they will be deployed from the u.s. embassy in baghdad. they will be based with iraqi battalions, they are at least closer to the fight and can provide better support to the iraqi military as to where u.s. air assets could conceivably help iraqi forces on the ground. the trouble is those forces on the ground aren t doing much. they are defending baghdad, defending the south, but there