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The other concern we leave afghanistan and leave pakistan on one side and they may have proxy wars without going to war with each other so that is a possibility. plus on the western side of afghanistan you have iran and iran is also very interested in what is going on in afghanistan and they will seek to influence things there as well and if we are not there, we lose all influence. >> "the washington post" published afghanistan papers, thousands of these documents and memos through interviews ju...

Is. are they losing control? >> i dont think they are losing control but most definitely in the 40 years that they have been running the regime, they have never had such wholesale disagreement with what is taking place. they are maintaining control with their guns, melissa, sadly to say. they are clearing the streets. i thousands of data estimated by the state department now. probably another thousand or so also wounded and 8-10000 in jail houses. they will do everything that they can to stay in...

Effective in defeating the rebel movement in the beni area ok then what should be the right approach. what should be the right approach i think for us it graces group we believe that there are 2 things that people should take into account and the 1st one is that a military solution as its currently being perceived is not the right track because the a.d.f. is so embedded in the local people communities you need to involve the communities you need to collect intelligence you need to speak to the c...

Romney got mocked for saying -- now, they say, oh, if you are not against russia. proxy wars. but they hack a democrats computer, and all of the sudden, we are in world war iii? >> greg: all right, juan. is she a russian agent? before i dont know. >> greg: all, juan. are you a russian agent, juan? >> juan: could be. she has no political future. she is not running. i think that what you have here is that she is free to speak her mind, and she does not want a repeat of what happened to a third-par...

Today the turkish vice-president said his country will not bow to threats after president trump said there would be an economic retaliation if turkeys military action gets out of line. the bloody civil war in syria has become the breeding ground for proxy wars between russia and iran, the united states an turkey, russia and iran prop up the dictator bashar assad who allegedly uses chemical weapons begins his own people. however turkey calls u.s. backed kurdish fighters trss. the becauses has dem...

From the people who lived the fear and the pressure. until now. >> in the late 70s through the 80s into the 90s all around the world we had proxy wars. lebanon was raging. there were conflicts throughout africa. the iran-iraq war. the break-up of yugoslavia, the break-up of czechoslovakia, those all occurred because someone was willing to sell them weapons. they created havoc. millions of people were killed. if youre one of the top gray and black arms dealers in the world you can make fortunes b...

Military equipment, their usage of that equipment by leading this coalition to get rid of the houthis in yemen least a lot to be desired. people cant tell if its recklessness or lack of skill. so then its is the u.s. better positioned to strike on behalf of saudi arabia and we also have to ask the question, do we want to get involved in not just an iranian and saudi conflict but proxy wars across the middle east. this is an enormous mess. we hope the saudis will be an ally, but -- >> but would a...

Going after the saudis. so i think that -- the good news to me is that theyve all tempered a little bit to say okay, lets do the forensics, who did it, how did they pull it off and what are our options? everything from diplomatic and i hope at the last of the list is military. >> it was last month the military adviser to irans supreme leader said outright yes, proxy wars are instruments and tools for us to increasingly use against the united states. do you believe that that is what we just saw p...

Everything depends on what the us and other players do next to calm or aggravate the situation in one of the worlds most volatile regions. yeah i mean its a region that is even more volatile deny it when you consider youve got iranian sabur rattling in the strait of hormuz youve got the failed state that we call libya and the problems there. youve got these latest drone attacks all of these things coming together are probably go are not going away and now were looking at higher oil prices so wer...

Libya and the problems there. youve got these latest drone attacks all of these things coming together are probably going theyre not going away and now were looking at higher oil prices so were talking about the global economy now cannot escape the middle east jube agree with that statement its back to the middle east crisis which we know from the seventys from the ninetys where the oil price plays a big role and youve mentioned iran and the united states which ive been to many proxy wars in the...