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>> you know whats interesting is when we go into a country and we leave, there is a vacuum created and it seems like al qaeda is coming. in we are going to leave afghanistan and there is no question the taliban is coming back. so, if -- when you talk about saddam hussein and even mubarak, they were more secular. now it seems that its the religious calafate. its all about one religion or one part of one religion fighting another. these religious wars, can they ever be won? >> well, its a very goo...

Nation to the u.s. and frien:s to israel there is no talk of giving them the support but were going to go back into iraq, possibly, what can we do with that generations long fight? >> well, first of all, we have to say that there has been a ton of sacrifices and we should not make those sacrifices in vain. we have to do something. its just a powder keg right now. we have ignored it for so long. we are trapped by the obama doctrine which is either go to war or ignore the situation. he doesnt know...

>> you know whats interesting is when we go into a country and we leave, there is a vacuum created and it seems like al qaeda is coming. in we are going to leave afghanistan and there is no question the taliban is coming back. so, if -- when you talk about saddam hussein and even mubarak, they were more secular. now it seems that its the religious calafate. its all about one religion or one part of one religion fighting another. these religious wars, can they ever be won? >> well, its a very goo...

Egypt which is a friendly nation to the u.s. and frien:s to israel there is no talk of giving them the support but were going to go back into iraq, possibly, what can we do with that generations long fight? >> well, first of all, we have to say that there has been a ton of sacrifices and we should not make those sacrifices in vain. we have to do something. its just a powder keg right now. we have ignored it for so long. we are trapped by the obama doctrine which is either go to war or ignore the...

Difference of opinion. >> but wait a second. these people have been out of action for 12 years. it would be like bringing michael jordan back to play against lebron tonight. they were out of it. the taliban today is so much different when they were there, we didnt capture them. in fact, one guy was trying to work with us to turn in another. mullah omar. so youre really overstating the capability of these people when they get back there, if they get back there. >> i think part of this is that thi...

Military made, yet, against the separatists here. they moved in to take the airport in this city, international airport back off the separatists that moved in. that was intention fighting there and 40 dead according to local officials. most of those separatist militants, two civilians as well. it left the city in a slight state of shock. all the unrest had been swirling around the region, rather than coming on the streets here. people are nervous about what comes ahead. talk of a curfew imposed ...

Swimmer. i grew up in hawaii. >> im sure he meant to say kenya. meanwhile, he explained what war between russia and the u.s. would look like, it would be a quote, bloody mess, he said the best option would be if we fought something like a proxy war. and russia helped the north vietnamese beat the u.s. in southeast asian, if that pattern holds and ukraine is the battle ground then it is bad news for the occupying army. what would a war look like? nasa just released this troubling video. ♪ ♪ �...

This is the first glimmer at least of progress weve seen in many weeks. the white house is not going to trump this up or pump this up or celebrate this in any way. they, too, say we dont know. lets wait and see, carol. >> we understand the united states will provide more aid to ukraine. its being called nonlethal aid. what is that? >> that could take a number of forms. i think the way its really been addressed here is sort of if the u.s. does not want to provide lethal aid, which would be guns a...

Of ukraine and now inside ukraine. so it is, in our interests, as a friend of ukraine, to try to give them intelligence or assistance to try to avoid bloodshed, and to the extent that weve been cooperating between our militaries or between our intelligence agencies, its mostly been to try to avoid conflict, not to instigate it. that, i think, is an important coordination, notwithstanding the fact that it may not be super smart to have brennan in kiev, giving the impression that the united states...

Going to send them in the next 24 to 48 hours that could really repel the russian army with 40,000 troops at the boarder? the light arms small weapons that they could send right now really would not make a difference. and they dont want to have the ukrainians engage in more conflict and escalate the situation. and also, the u.s. doesnt want to get involved in a proxy war with russia, wolf. you saw this reluctance with syria. certainly if the u.s. is aiding ukrainian army in a proxy war with russ...