i was in the white house with bush when he announced the surge. ramadi was the first test. and we saul the presence there on the slides that looked like a tumor being shrunk. it is not just a symbolic victory. it means isis the al qaeda off shoot, is going in power. and iraqis are looking to iran. saying the americans are our friends on paper but in combat it is the iranians. so the ramadi is a microcosm of two kinds of influence gaining. is there reputation at risk and are they fighting internationally we ve got internally and accelerate our bombing and do more? a generation of army officers came of age telling our
note continue as well, mark, good to see you, thank you. irs is not the only issue the administration is dealing w tonight the pentagon confirms the u.s. is flying armed drones over iraq. this as an al qaeda off shoot tries to establish the world s first radical islamic nation putting the president s foreign policy at a new low the commander in chief suggesting it doesn t matter whether the american people support him or not. let me ask you a question on foreign policy coming from something you wrote in 2006. you re talking about president bush s foreign policy strategy. you said without a well arct articulated strategy, america lacks the power they need today. are you failing by your own standard? george, i know we go back to polls but let me just say throughout the first half of my
you re pursuing an interesting line of argument but as i said i ve worked and know these people so i will reserve judgment at this point. what should obama do in iraq right now. okay. judge, he has two problems. one, you ve shown it on the map. the colonel laid it out, we ve got a growing islamic radical al qaeda off shoot state between syria and iraq. the president was right yesterday when he said we can t solve this with troops opt ground. we need the local people to rise up as happened in 2007 against al qaeda in iraq. but to do that, that requires the right government in baghdad. that requires diplomatic work in the region. all of the things the president said. we might be able to provide diplomatic assistance, pressure the maliki government or whoever comes after malyk a and provide military support and including heir support. but we can t do the job our
you re pursuing an interesting line of argument but as i said i ve worked and know these people so i will reserve judgment at this point. what should obama do in iraq right now. okay. judge, he has two problems. one, you ve shown it on the map. the colonel laid it out, we ve got a growing islamic radical al qaeda off shoot state between syria and iraq. the president was right yesterday when he said we can t solve this with troops opt ground. we need the local people to rise up as happened in 2007 against al qaeda in iraq. but to do that, that requires the right government in baghdad. that requires diplomatic work in the region. all of the things the president said. we might be able to provide diplomatic assistance, pressure the maliki government or whoever comes after malyk a and provide military support and including heir support. but we can t do the job our
you re pursuing an interesting line of argument but as i said i ve worked and know these people so i will reserve judgment at this point. what should obama do in iraq right now. okay. judge, he has two problems. one, you ve shown it on the map. the colonel laid it out, we ve got a growing islamic radical al qaeda off shoot state between syria and iraq. the president was right yesterday when he said we can t solve this with troops opt ground. we need the local people to rise up as happened in 2007 against al qaeda in iraq. but to do that, that requires the right government in baghdad. that requires diplomatic work in the region. all of the things the president said. we might be able to provide diplomatic assistance, pressure the maliki government or whoever comes after malyk a and provide military support and including heir support. but we can t do the job our