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© YouTube/KJN Scott Horton Last month Foreign Affairsran an article saying that Iran and Israel were engaged in mutual hostilities that could drag the United States into a war not of our choosing, and there was no mention in the article of the people who really do want the U.S. to go to war with Iran, the neoconservative branch of the Israel lobby. Last week Foreign Policy ran an article by one of those neoconservatives, saying that if the U.S. returns to its deal with a "rogue regime commi...

ENOUGH ALREADY: TIME TO END THE WAR ON TERRORISM by Scott Horton Last month Foreign Affairsran an article saying that Iran and Israel were engaged in mutual hostilities that could drag the United States into a war not of our choosing, and there was no mention in the article of the people who really do want the U.S. to go to war with Iran, the neoconservative branch of the Israel lobby. Last week Foreign Policy ran an article by one of those neoconservatives, saying that if the U.S. returns to ...

Appetite of the american people to put boots on ground back in iraq in a combat role. does the presidents administration and actions fall short of the rhetoric? >> i have great deal of respect for ken pollack and thats within terninterpretation. i believe were talking about a military offensive and what form do we play in that no combat enduring offensive action on the ground. but also communications strategy, i think thats a place where we must and could do better. they had been very successful...

Note as he visited a number of times. mixingdentmatic with the military solution -- mixing diplomatic with the military solutions, thats the crux of the matter. to comment, though, on the issue of horrendous things in the future, they will happen. you have extremist in the sunni areas, you have extremist in the shia population. bad things will happen, and thats one of the things that as we take these 300 advisers and put them in harms way, we have to consider. they are going to be faced with a v...

Good guys or w clean hands. and that is one of the reasons that americans are overwhelmingly opposed to reengaging in any way in iraq. and in fact, most americans believe that this current crisis is not the result of us having pulled out too soon, but the result of us having gone in in the first place. i think that getting over that hurdle both here at home and in neighboring countries about who can you trust and if you go in, you know, who is truly on your side and is there a good guy to be fou...

Kurds, and sunnis live in peace. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> lets dig deeper now in the political and the military challenges as well as the enormous complexities involved with ken pollack, is the center for middle east policy. he was an early supporter of the war in iraq and the former ambassador to iraq. you made a number of points which i think are really important that i want to get to. one, you said a lot of people we talk about isis forces. but this is a coalition of groups. its not just...

>> exactly. weve seen these armies collapse before. in 2003, in 1991. if these troops do not believe they are fighting for their own territory and their own people, their own families, they did hold and fight against the iranians in the 1980s. so they can fight if they think that theyre motivated. they will fight for the shia areas, anderson. but the problem again is there are intertwined shia and sunni communities all around baghdad. thats why baghdad is so critical right now. >> ken, baghdad i...

"radical: my journey out of islam extremism." he joins me with former bush homeland security adviser fran townsend. fran, we talked to ken pollack earlier in the program who said you shouldnt overestimate the impact of foreign fighters here, that this is an iraqi operation. that being said, there is a foreign component here. it is very important. how concern ready u.s. intelligence officials about that sort of foreign legion as part of the isis contingent, and about the possibility of them retur...

Unimaginable that the united states would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars." he said, "those who argue that the united states would inevitably become the target of unhappy iraqis generally also assume that the iraqi population would be hostile to u.s. forces from the outset. however, the best evidence we have suggests that the iraqi people would be pleased to be liberated." he was basically th...