CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS June 29, 2014 14:37:00
Where we feel we need to back somebody to show -- to demonstrate credibility. demonstrate strength and not to lose influence over that client or not to lose influence over adversaries. thats sort of how brittain and france and germany got involved in the war in the balkans. >> would that apply to iraq, that we would get in because we wanted to show the iraqi government? >> it would be less the iraqi government than the saudis in a sense because the sense that the sunni/shia war is a proxy war be...
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