and hep helping iraq and what the leader wants to help sell, is fighter jets and apache helicopters. but as we heard in chris' report, mr. maliki is seen by many as part of the problem that somebody who was meant to foster reconciliation and includiveness on the political stage has done the opposite, consolidating power around himself and excluding the soon nigeria minority on any meaningful level. i discuss what's a multifaceted nature of this a short time ago with a former state department strategist on counterterrorism. one of the people who helped design the iraq war troop surge. >> the iraqi government has really failed to put the effort in in terms of reconciliation and rebuilding of trust among iraqi communities that would lead to, you know, reduction of long time tension among the sectarian groups. the second big factor is the syrian conflict, which led to a