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Stoked a sectarian war in syria that has been taking place for years. you make it worse. i think this is not an opportunity. i think the russians have been telegraphing this plan overall to us for years. unfortunately, secretary kerry spent most of his time negotiating with lavrov to get -- >> how should he engage with lavrov? >> i think the most important thing is to talk to them about an end state in syria and do they see a viable alternative to assad and getting a transition in the country. a...

Alone will not lead to victory. youve got to have that ground component that flushes the enemy out, and you have to have clear concerted objectives that will lead you to some end state that results in some kind of political settlement so you can have peace. and so air strikes alone arent going to do it and i think thats part of the syrian effort is to get the -- enough troops on the ground there in syria to pressure isis and syria so they cant without any kind of pressure just focus on iraq and ...

Leadership, and if the united states is going to lead i talked to the region every day, all around the gulf states and so forth, including some of the forces that we dont necessarily want to talk to but at the end of the day everybody tells me they are waiting for the united states to lead and thats what i think this really comes down to is what is the leadership here? many americans dont want to spend anymore money on the war, and certainly when i was there we were spending $12 billion a month,...

On keeping that same end date the same, but were not going to make that said gradual decline. instead were going to keep 10,000 troops, what we have there now, were going to keep them there for the rest of the year. that means the decline to that end state will be a much more rapid descent, a much more rapid withdrawal over the course of the final year. it is clear that the afghan president wants more american troops there for longer. the president says we are going to do that but the end game n...

The support for this operation. i think there are questions not about this aumf which is a vehicle for a strategy but really can the strategy defeat isis as it states as its end state which means youll have to go into iraq and syria to do that. so there are questions about the strategy. i dont think there are questions about the support from the administration congress or the american people. >> and, joe, i dont mean to throw a light-weight question your way but its interesting that code pink ma...

And assistance teams on the ground supporting the iraqi military as well as the iraqi militia forces to destroy isis. >> im wondering, do iranians see this war in iraq and the instability as an opportunity for them in terms of their influence in that region? >> yeah, they do. theres really two ways of looking at it. tactically, several people even general dempsey, the chairman of joint chiefs said its probably a good thing to have the iranians on the ground assisting. unfortunately, at the strat...

Someone who has. the vast majority of the country has gone untouched and hasnt really experienced the same kind of sacrifices as others. members and events organizations in our community are really focused on trying to connect veterans civilians, trying to showcase some of the great things that veterans are doing in the civilian world and working to bridge that divide. >> i think it goes beyond just saying hey, i appreciate your service. i think people need to look for ways to support within the...

>> i know those nato allies like poland and the other countries, theyre nervous, but do you really believe, mr. ambassador, that putin would order russian incursions against a nato ally, ukraine not being a member of nato, obviously? >> i think if we did not take the steps that were taking now, he would think that maybe its an option. i think putin doesnt have an end state in mind other than strengthening russian power and influence. and i think he has three things in mind. he has the russian co...

Upset about this accord because they see iran as a rising power. as the arab world melts down you have three truly consequential powers in this region today, and they are all nonarabs, iran, turkey and israel. the reality is the saudis in the gulf are very worried as the israelis are about the rise of iran. the problem for us is that we really have bad options and worse options. i just dont see how this interim agreement leads to an end state where the iranians agree to moth ball let alone put b...

Sanctions within six months unless iran ships all stockpiles of enriched uranium out of the country and dismantles both its heavy water plutonium reactor and uranium enrichment program, two separate paths to a nuclear bomb. >> 30 years, they have been one of the more chaotic, mayhem-causing regimes on the planet. why would you want to let the ayatollahs have the ability to enrich and hope the u.n. can stop them? thats not an acceptable out come. >> reporter: the administration is calling for non...