don't really have a country behind it? is there an iraq? is there such a place? >> by the day and the week we're seeing iraq disintegrate. there isn't really a sense of iraq anymore. it feels much more of kurdistan in the north, a failed sunni state in the center and an increasingly shiite and increasingly iran-dominated south that starts in baghdad. so if you are an army and you are supposed to be representing the united iraq united iraq that increasingly looks like a memory, then i think you're -- you're not finding the will to fight. >> if you're an iraqi military commander, halfway up the ranks, a major or whatever and i said to your troops hold the line. don't give up. they are coming at us, don't give. what is your innocent sniff what do you say to these guys? remember the alamo? what do you say to these people? i'm dead serious. most people would say i'm