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It doesn t mean there haven t been areas of set back as we saw in ramadi. to refer to what happened in ramadi as simply a set back and that we will help to say that we will help the iraqs regain it, frankly the gap between the rhetoric and getting it done, i think, is pretty significant. they have got ramadi, they have got fallujah, they have got mosul. getting them out of these cities is going to be incredibly tough. former defense secretary bob gates talking about basically the situation were isis terrorists on the ground in iraq. we re back with the panel. charles, what about this back and forth how the administration is playing it and the reality on the ground? the administration is delusional or cynical. i would hope cynical because, otherwise, we are in deep trouble. this is a tremendously defeat. this isn t only a geographic defeat the fact that fallujah is gone and ramadi is gone it s that the iraqi army once again ran. our whole idea is we are ....
Richard talked about the european 30 years war. i think he s right. this is a generation plus now. when isis went into iraq last summer they unleashed what we re now seeing as this massive split between sunnis and shias. they also got america to play right into their hands by beheading american hostages on television. they made isis the number one enemy in the region. we kind of got distracted from the iranians because it was the americans that we were watching being beheaded. we re not seeing americans beheaded by shia militias. we re seeing iraqs. the shia militias threatened to shoot down warplanes in iraq. a final point on this. tikrit is now largely liberated from isis control thanks to u.s. air power. today the washington post reports that there s graffiti in farsi reading death to america. you want to talk about inherent contradictions. we are enabling our enemies by defeating another enemy. we re frightened when we see ....
This morning the chaos in yemen is growing. the houthis which is a rebel group backed by iran now control large parts of yemen. saudis are launching air strikes targeting rebels. what is at stake for the united states at this point? there s a concern that oil prices could affect your prices at the pump. we already saw oil prices drop a dollar a barrel after the saudi oil strikes or iraqs, i should say. they ve got warships coming from egypt, pakistan this morning is saying they re not sure if they re going to be involved but it looks like about ten nations are backing the saudis. on the other side is iran. the u.s. is helping the saudis with intelligence at the same time sitting down at the table with iran trying to work out a nuclear deal. they re trying to keep this out of the negotiations but it looks like the u.s. could be affected by whatever is happening in that region. ....
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Defenses on the way into the city. and found them basically lightly defended, not even with their best abrams tanks out there. they didn t even have the abrams tanks throughout. what is in your estimation wrong with the iraqi military? it s a combination of things. i think the most important two iraqs are firstly that a lot of iraqi soldiers don t necessarily want to fight for the iraqi government that is currently constituted. so they re basically bailing and leaving positions which they probably have the equipment to defend. but they just don t want to. and then the second issue is over about the last six months, isis, the islamic state of iraq and the levant has been building alliances with the former baathist regime. and a lot of the people that were senior within the iraqi military have been reached by that group of people. so that there is potentially some issues of loyalty and competence within the senior leadership within the iraqi military. is there any chance for the iraq ....