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America essentially put him in power. >> in one of the more troubled areas of the world. >> even though the western governments loved the shah, they werent paying attention to the facts on the ground and there were many people who were discontented with the shah, in part because of his extremely oppressive policies. >> iran was seen as important for its oil resources, but also because the shah was an ally when it came to regional goals. this was a natural alliance for the united states. >> the p...

Say they will kill them all if theres any attempt at rescue. >> the popular front for the liberation of palestine, the plfp, proudly claimed credit for the coordinated action. >> the arabs, not just palestinians, look at israel as an occupying force. its occupying arab land. and they dont believe that israel should be there. thats the basis of the conflict. >> there is a group from pflp on every plane to explain or our problem, the palestinian problem, and to justify the way we are doing things ...

Area so the reconstruction effort can go forward and be completed and isis does not interfere with it isis does not want the people in that area being indebted to sunni arabs or to the united states at all. they have been telling us. i know this from the institute study of war has been reporting for weeks that isis has been telling the people in the area. see, the united states told you they were going to take care of you and they havent done it: you can imagine what they are saying now given th...

Mattis made it clear that he thinks that china and russia are bad actors. what was your reaction to it all? >> look, im saddened. weve been working with allies for some 60 coalition groups working with us, the sdf, made up of kurds and arabs, have been doing the fighting for us. weve been helping them do what theyre doing, but theyre the ones doing the fighting. were in the final stages. isis is now concentrated in the euphrates river valley. were a few month as way from finishing something that...

When it comes to mattis have respect for allies and alliances and that he thinks that china and russia are bad actors. what was your reaction to it all? >> look, im saddened. weve been working with allies for some 60 coalition groups working with us, the sdf, made up of kurds and arabs, have been doing the fighting for us. weve been helping them do what theyre doing, but theyre the ones doing the fighting. were in the final stages. isis is now concentrated in the euphrates river valley. were a f...

The kurds are doing a great job, this coalition of mostly kurds and arabs fighting are taking the fight to isis. theyre having battlefield successes. theyve come off a long campaign to take a city that was the last remaining strong hold in the middle euphrates valley. now is not the time to pull the plug on our support. >> thats what i wonder. would they feel that much more vulnerable now having made that kind of ground only now to lose u.s. support? >> yeah, and here is whats going to happen. t...

Again, we are looking at 2000 troops. i dont think theres really much of an emphasis at all. our nationbuilding and i believe united states has already declared that we would not take place in nationbuilding as so long as iran was part of a process and aranda certainly still part of the process there. so again, minimal outlay. but again, the idea here was to deter our enemies. and i think that we had done that with a minimal presence. a smaller footprint. and i think that really, through the sma...

Be re-thought. but i wanted to mention those numbers because the local people, most of them muslims, arabs and afghans are fighting extremists. thats the reality. overwhelmingly it is local forces fighting and dying. >> im glad you said that. we have republican senator lindsey graham, who is a big supporter of the president. he went as far to say this is a high risk strategy regarding afghanistan that would, quote, pave the way toward a second 9/11. he chooses his words carefully. you cannot thi...

Now is leaves them there for the potential for them to maybe grow, maybe to be able to start inspiring attacks outside of the region in the u.s. and in europe, something like that. that is one of the big concerns but also the concern that this is going against the syrian democratic forces, the ypg and the arabs fighting who have been a very consistent strong partner to the u.s. and the coalition and this is abandoning them. >> with mattis leaving in the way that hes leaving and leaving over thes...

Middle east, that is exactly what we have been doing. the primary fighters are syrians, kurds and arabs. day in, day out fighting this light infantry on the ground engaging the -- obviously the isis fighting forces for better part of a year now. what we have there are advisors, 2,200, who are helping to put together the plans to conduct that fight and also our air power and artillery support. that has been decisive. if we pull away -- >> bill: to be clear on this what the white house has said. t...