one way of weakening america and making it less great is if you start betraying those basic american traditions that have been bipartisan and have helped to hold together this democracy now for well over two centuries. with respect to mosul, we are seeing the iraqi forces with the support of the co-tlaalition th includes the united states and italy, and other nations, moving forward and encircling mosul. the intention is to drive isil out of what was its first major urban stronghold. and what continues to be one of the, the key organizational and