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The past year some, a few of the refugees that have come in to germany have been responsible for attacks. but in large main thats not the focus of the problem either in europe, certainly not here in the united states. two factors, carol, one is as the islamic state the pressured by the iraqi military and u.s. military, were leakly see the islamic state resort to these terrorist attacks just to keep their organization alive in front of their supporters and second syria is disintegrating. 12 milli...

Of iraq and syria as well as other rebels. as richard engel reports, the conflict is erupting along sectarian lines posing the threat of a new civil war. >> why is this happening? sunnis ruled iraq for 13 centuries until the u.s. invasion toppled saddam hussein. the sunnis want their country back. they hate the shiite government which has excluded them from power and there are no u.s. troops around anymore to stop them. >> the u.s. is weighing options to help the iraqi government whose soldiers ...

♪ live look at the white house. kind of a hazy morning. time for the must read opinion pages. i have a quick one here for david ignatius. this is from "the wall street journal." while obama fiddles. the fall of mosul, iraq, to al qaeda terrorists this week is as big as the implications as russias annexation of crimea, barack obama is fiddling while the world burns. iraq, pakistan, syria, kenya, with wildfires with more surely to come have burned for two years until the united states has a ne...

Fatigue with the world if not his leadership frees him to create a progressive domestic legacy. this friday mr. obama is giving a speech in north dakota. iraq may be transforming into a second syria or a restored caliphate. and leave his successor a nightmare. david ignatius, your thoughts. >> mika, those are harsh words from "the wall street journal," but i think theres a lot of truth to them. i found myself this week re-rereading the last foreign policy of the campaign in which president obama...

Seriously. because they dont want to see isis to take over. then the larger question is how do you solve this problem. this is not the united states problem. this is a sunni/shiite problem that has been acute and exacerbated since the u.s. invasion. >> thank you very much. real quick to joe before we close out this block, is this not the united states problem? >> this is the worlds problem. the unrest thats going to spread across the middle east, the crisis thats already spilling outside of syri...

It could be that we are seeing the start of a civil war. the government maliki has tried to declare a state of emergency. so far hes been unsuccessful. he is now moving army divisions from southern iraq to try and reinforce the capital. this is a very serious situation. and it would be wrong to just say that this is a problem for iraq and syria and to dismiss it. these militants, tens of thousands of them are very anti-american. and they dont see this fight as just being limited to this region. ...

Civilians are fleeing the area. officials say up to 500,000 displaced already. the u.s. fought a nearly decade-long war costing thousands of american lives and a trillion dollars for this not to happen. many of the radicals are the same insurgents u.s. troops battled for years. theyre now aligned with militants from syria creating a single front. their leader was once held by american forces. some say hes the real heir to osama bin laden. the u.s. has a $10 million bounty for him. why is this ha...

Dad. >> were going to hear more on this. >> its fascinating. >> absolutely. more from him coming up. and also talk about the now race to replace cantor in his leadership position. but first we have to start in iraq. 11 years after american troops arrived in baghdad, the city is facing the threat of a new invasion. this time from the same insurgents the u.s. spent time fighting. stunning speed and now fighters are vowing to march all the way to the capital. their goal is to establish an islamic s...