right to focus on trying to get a government that addresses some of the sunni arab community's concerns without surrendering to the islamic state, far from it. >> if we weren't able to do that with a trillion dollars and more than 150,000 drops on the ground, we couldn't get maliki to do that, not to the extend we wanted to. why should anyone believe that the u.s. with 300 advisors on the ground will be able to do that? >> that's a fair question, anderson. what i would say is two things, number one, the situation in front of the government in iraq is more difficult for them now than it was, say, in 2009 and 2010. the al qaeda problem in iraq was much more under control then than it is now. we have more leverage promising to give help if the iraqis will move on political issues.