Of deteriorating security situations in that country. Cnn correspondent ja mana joins us from baghdad with more on this. These marines being pulled out, does this mean there will be no more u. S. Personnel in that country . Well according to u. S. Officials, fred, these are the last of u. S. Troops these 100 special forces are the last of u. S. Troops in the country, but, of course, it is a counterterrorism operation and it has been surrounded with mystery. At least publicly these are thought to be the last of u. S. Forces there. Theres been a lot of concern about the impact of the chaos and deteriorating security situation weve been seeing in that country over the last few months and what impact this has on u. S. Counterterrorism operations there. We know the u. S. Military there has been targeting the leadership of al qaeda in the a Arabian Peninsula, aqap that has used yemen as its base. We saw last month the u. S. Embassy there, shutting down and pulling out the staff. That has als
and didn t drop anything. we put forward the idea of an arab nato. we ve invested in foreign militaries in that region for the past 50 years. i was at the army war college this week. we have foreign officers attending university there. why don t we call in our investment. we ve invested in the egyptians and jordanians and the saudi arabians. let s organize them for their own victory, their own defense into an arab type nato. what we re calling a red sea treaty organization. i m not sure which side it would fall on colonel. the three-state solution sunni, shiite and kurd may not be such a horrible idea. exactly. that s our point here. you have to find a way you guys were talking about the iranians. we have to have something that counters the iranians quickly. so you have the basically the sunni crescent that can actually
we have foreign officers attending university there. why don t we call in our investment. we ve invested in the egyptians and jordanians and the saudi arabians. let s organize them for their own victory, their own defense into an arab type nato. what we re calling a red sea treaty organization. i m not sure which side it would fall on colonel. the three-state solution sunni, shiite and kurd may not be such a horrible idea. exactly. that s our point here. you have to find a way you guys were talking about the iranians. we have to have something that counters the iranians quickly. so you have the basically the sunni crescent that can actually kind of organize the egyptians, jordanians and saudis. they have plentsy of money. we ve trained them. if our training is not good what good is it? and allow for the three-piece partition to come into
that they need. yes, god bless the kurds for what they re doing but they could be doing so much better. two things need to be done. first, you need to arm the kurds to the level necessary to see them do more. i would use them as an internal expeditionary force to go retake all those cities back you just mentioned. they are able they are willing and plus they know how to fight. the iraqi army as we knew it is gone. let s use the resources we have get past this john mccain meme of wanting to send u.s. forces in there. let s use the things we have that we know will work before we send u.s. forces in. secondly we have to create or help the gulf coalition become what i would call the red sea treaty organization. we have arab armies we have trained for the past 50 years. president sisi and the egyptians can lead it. we can get behind the arabs who are trained and able and our doctrine and equipment to go do the fighting with the iraqis to put stability back. it will not be the iraq we knew b