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Jim acosta, thank you very much. the troop drawdown may have a ripple down effect in the region. right next door, as all of us know, is pakistan. with fewer troops in afghanistan, will that limit u.s. options in dealing with terror in pakistan? >> wolf, this may be a key question for what does happen two years from now when u.s. troops pack up and go home. what happens if the u.s. spots an al qaeda terrorist training camp right on that afghanistan/pakistan border in what if pakistans nuclear wea...

Sense -- she feels the iranians know theres a moment here. its not just an emotional thing. its not just about sanctions. they feel for the first time that their interests in the region overlap with americas interest. they feel threatened by what they see as an encirclement, by terrorist elements, who happen to be enemies of the u.s. they see a strategic interest in trying to align with the u.s. now. they dont want -- whether or not they want the u.s. to be their best friends, they certainly don...

Circumstances, but we have been in south korea for a significant period of time. >> not a civil war going on. >> thats the point, thats why i got to the point about saying that the government there ultimately, and thats going to be the case in afghanistan as well, has to be able to provide internal security on their own. if you dont have a functional government that can provide the basics of government, no residual force is going to ultimately guarantee the result we want. its just not possible....

Recollection sted away. -- wrested away. you have got a civil war in syria thats growing worse by the day. you have got rising terrorist elements all across north africa and the middle east from algeria, nigeria, right across to somalia and the arabian peninsula. this is a huge issue. the president doesnt want to talk about the global war and terror. he doesnt want to engage on a war on terror. he wants to indict in federal criminal trials. i think the significance of the traj chicago benghazi d...

Here. we have had over the past four years, a pipeline of young somali americans, particularly from minneapolis, of all places, going to somalia, training, and then returning here to america, and apparently, neil, in this mall massacre, some americans were involved in this massacre in terms of seizing that mall. so we have a big problem there. >> neil: were get something disputes on that, but what is driving them? is a understand they were -- had a prominent government helping somalia weed out s...

Upstate new york, u.s. citizens involved in aiding and abetting. and a training camp. a number of citizens who established links with foreign terror, with al-qaeda and foreign terrorist elements and have been subsequently arrested. can you imagine what would happen during the bush years if wed taken and unleashed a drone on the lakawana nine and blown them up? who would be leading the fight against the bush administration would have been barack obama and eric holder. yes, we get the wishy-washy ...

Upstate new york, u.s. citizens involved in aiding and abetting. and a training camp. a number of citizens who established links with foreign terror, with al-qaeda and foreign terrorist elements and have been subsequently arrested. can you imagine what would happen during the bush years if wed taken and unleashed a drone on the lakawana nine and blown them up? who would be leading the fight against the bush administration would have been barack obama and eric holder. yes, we get the wishy-washy ...

Turks dont want the assad regime to continue but they are worried that the opposition does contain substantial terrorist elements including al-qaeda. one of these things where it is like chinese checkers. there are five or six players in the region and none of them form convenient alliances with one another. this is not a two person checkers game. >> greta: i havent seen this embassy but i have seen some of our embassies and some of them are a dangerous place like in pakistan. it is amazing how ...

Turks dont want the assad regime to continue but they are worried that the opposition does contain substantial terrorist elements including al-qaeda. one of these things where it is like chinese checkers. there are five or six players in the region and none of them form convenient alliances with one another. this is not a two person checkers game. >> greta: i havent seen this embassy but i have seen some of our embassies and some of them are a dangerous place like in pakistan. it is amazing how ...

Important one for the region, alex. >> we look at whats happening in other sort of states where the government has a tenuous grip on power or the government is basically a failed state. weve seen al qaeda lirnked network rushing in to the host cells to take over virally. what happens in ejust a minute if this government does fall. who fails the game? >> there are indications that the police force have been the most degraded state institutions. the police really has not been able to carry out bas...