That they were sending an Aircraft Carrier to the golf as diplomatic and military efforts are being weighed the sunday morning. Our phone lines are open. Can also weigh in my sending us a tweet. Our email address is journal at cspan. Org. Us on facebook. Already, many of you weighing in on the question. Diplomacy or military in iraq. Answer,g with one diplomacy. Good sunday morning to you. We will begin with your calls and comments in the moment. The leaders in iraq directing troops to make their stand against advancing sunni militants and a flashpoint city revered by a shiite mosque in order to highlight the sectarian fighting that is tearing the country apart. The Prime Ministers order came as he sought to put out fire in the belly of his troops in the , threatening ifi f to dance to the capital of baghdad, the Iraqi Military claimed they had regained a key new territory, a claim conflicting with other reports and Security Officials who had of then that 60 to 70 province remains in the hands of isi s. Will get your calls in just a moment, but first a look of the other sunday morning programs that can be heard beginning at noon eastern time. Of course, iraqi and the Succession Plan for eric cantor is front and center this sunday morning. Nancy, good morning. You are right, they will be talking about the defeat of eric cantor in the primary election. The release of Sergeant Oberg all from the taliban, plus the situation in iraq. You can hear rebroadcast of those programs on cspan radio beginning today at noon eastern meet the press. Oh guests include mitt romney, joe manchin, and peter king. Hear this can week. On the program today, eric cantor, representative michael mccaul, and form your army vice chief of staff vice chief of staff, peter pirelli. On fox news sunday, here tom , all and mike rogers republicans. Also, actor Robert Deniro is on the program today. , with of the union today another appearance by eric cantor. , majorindsay graham general paul eaton, and Adam Kinzinger of illinois. Nation, face the with rance priebus and tom donnell on. Showsnday network tv talk are on cspan radio and are brought to you as a Public Service by the networks and cspan. The lineup . Noon. The press begins at followed by abcs this week, at 2 00. Fox news sunday at 3 00. 4 00, face the nation. All on cspan radio here in the washington, d. C. Area, nationwide on xm 120,lite radio channel download our free app or go online. You for that, nancy. Shiite forces push back in the rack, and from the hill, we ise this, the president trapped between two International Crises at a time when the military is facing cutbacks in the public is weary of foreign engagement. The story is Available Online. , john kerry, state pressing russia to halt the flow of tanks and heavy arms into ukraine and to help broker a ceasefire after the shutdown of military transport planes. With all of that, specifically with the rack, diplomacy, military options, what should the u. S. Do . This is from our twitter page us on ourn is joining line for republicans. Caller good morning. We have spilled so much blood over there. Our young men have been fighting over there. We are worldweary. Why cant saudi arabia and some of those arab countries form out theirhelp neighbors, basically . Put do they do, sit around, on jewelry and perfume and just lounge around and collect oil revenues . Why do boys have to go over there time and again to solve their problems . Host thank you for the call. Cynthia . Caller good morning. I wondered why we, first of all, went to iraq, but now that we have they are trying to pull out of their. We have trained the iraqi people over there and they cut and run when there is a conflict. I dont think that we should shed one more drop of blood over there or use any more military resources. If diplomacy does not work i really your last caller. Countries around there, why are they not involved in this . Why are we choosing to go over there . I think that america has given enough. It should be strictly diplomacy. The civil war has been going on for over a thousand years and it will go on for another 1000. I dont think that we should be shedding blood over there, sending our men and women over there to die for, quite frankly, people who really their feelings towards us are questionable. You mentioned the cost of blood and treasure, here are some facts with regards to iraq. U. S. Combat missions began in the Bush Administration on arch 19th, 2003. The length of the mission was eight years, nine months, 12 days. 1. 5 million americans served. 4000 500 died. U. S. Troops injured . Just over 32,000. Monti has the support on our twitter page supporting him by air is a support for out policies to support iran in iraq. Carl is joining us from litchfield. Good morning. Caller this is somewhat amazing. How mitt romney could foresee all of these things happening. That when the russians took crimea and the news people poke fun at him . So did barack obama. Everyone feels sorry for the president , that is why he gets paid the big bucks. All president s have these crises to deal with. I have to bring this up. I seen i read in the paper that the irs has conveniently lost all of these emails from lois lerner to the white house to senator schumer, to senator whitehead. This is a crooked Us Administration since richard nixon. That is putting it mildly. Thank you. Stay onhost can you the line for a minute . I want to share with you this story that mitt romney will be on meet the press, this morning. His meeting taking place in three days, retreat of sorts in park city, utah, the headline is republicans searching for a focus. One of the related stories from the Washington Post close vote yesterday that some are encouraging him to run again, should he run for president again . Lord, i hope he does. You know what . If he had been president of the United States . This country would have been a heck of a lot better off today. It is amazing how you can look into the future and see this stuff that is going to happen and how all you folks in the news media poke fun at him, tell him that you are just daydreaming well, he wasnt. He knew what was going to happen and he had the right answers. Carl, again, thank you for the call. The story this morning is about mitt romney and his retreat from over the weekend, including a number of leading potential president ial candidates. We off also covered rand paul, bobby jindal, in des moines, iowa, for the state gop convention. The question this morning u. S. Options in iraq. Diplomacy or military . Tj says that president obama any policies in the rack, he and his zombies just blame bush. Good morning, florida. Caller my opinion on this is no military option, minimal diplomacy. Americans have given enough. We have been there for over 10 years and have given millions of dollars. They have equipment resources that we left behind. We left all types of equipment over there. Them. Ined if they refused the training that was given to them for that. Of time and they are sitting there afraid or scared of the different factions, that is not our problem anymore. We went there under false pretenses, number one. Number two, there was no good reason to be there in the first place. We dismantled the country, we made this mess, now everyone says we should stay. It really would not matter if we stayed there or were still there for the next five years. Thank you for the call. Jim has this point diplomacy has a bad meaning in washington, usually it means how much money we are going to give to get our way. Attentionaddress your to what tony blair wrote. Esterday on his website the civil war syria with its intended this integration is having a predictable effect. Iraqis now in middle mortal danger. The home of the middle east is under mortal threat. We will have to rethink our strategy towards syria and support iraqi in beating back the insurgency will making it clear that iraq policy and politics will have to change for any resolution of the Current Crisis to be sustained. Then we need a comprehensive plan for the middle east that correctly learns the lessons of the last decade and in doing so we should work with our allies closely across the region, whose understanding of these issues is crucial and two are prepared to work with us on root causes for extremism, which go far beyond iraq and syria. You can get the full essay online. Allen is joining us next. Good morning from asheville, north carolina. Caller good to be on the show. After world war i we learned our lesson, after a conflict if we are going to get involved, we have to be a stabilizing force and part of the world. We leftrld war two, troops in germany, japan, korea. After this conflict we pulled everybody out and now it went back. If we had left korea, korea would be back in the same situation it was. The United States has accepted, since world war i, actually, since world war ii, to be the stabilizing force of the world. If we are backing away from that, we will have to live with the consequences. At what price . How much should we invest in terms of troops and dollars . Make sure should just it is a stabilizing force. Look what weve done in korea and japan. We dont have tons of people there, but we have been there, we have been a force. We have deterred a conflict from becoming another issue. Host thank you for the call. The toy is joining us on the democratic line. U. S. Options in the rack. Diplomacy . Military . What are your thoughts. I dont understand how you all could ask that question with the lives that have been lost over war that should not have been. Youmany more lives would say should be lost . What question should we be asking this morning . Caller not whether we should stay there or not, that is clear, we should not stay there. They should be able to handle their own peace process. We are not the police of the world. Very good. Thank you for the call from ohio. On our Facebook Page, some of the comments is joining us next from wisconsin. Good morning. Caller good morning. Happy fathers day. Host thank you. Caller you know, if it were not for w and his people, there would be no al qaeda in iraq. This country destroyed whatever stabilizing factor there was over there when they let Saddam Hussein out. We cannot do airstrikes or whatever, you know . Diplomacy, let the middle east try to work it out. We can try to help them work it out dramatically, you know, lets talk about it, but under no circumstances should we even think about bombing, killing innocent people, because of a war that was started under false pretenses. Help w and his people who ptarted the scrap this cra in the first place. Host thank you for the call. This message from a viewer the New York Times sunday magazine is looking at terrorism and calling it the next front, shifting increasingly to the remote and ungoverned areas of africa, the u. S. Faces a tricky balance, fighting in him fighting an enemy without actually doing the fighting. Usa today, with this story, thats heartbreaking as civil overtakes a rack overtakes the rack overtakes iraq. The 55yearold warren, michigan resident worries that everything that he and hundreds of thousands of other american soldiers fought for and died for , he worries they will be lost as they rampage through a rack iraq. If if they are not going to hold their ground, they will take baghdad. Am heartbroken bitterness, even sadness as the same insurgency that took lastol of two major cities week now taking over those areas, with baghdad in question. The map of the region this morning, u. S. Options in a rack, diplomacy or military. Karl joins us from pennsylvania. Republican line. Iraq right now, real problem that needs real solutions. Twice by been elected real politics with no solutions. That is exactly what goes on here. It will look like a lot of things that will give voters out, but nothing will happen because they just dont want to get to the real problems and solve them with real solutions. That is about the way i feel about it. Thank you for weighing in. The other story getting a lot of attention . The leadership vote taking place on thursday as Republican Leaders meet to decide on a successor for eric cantor, who lost in his bid for the seventh can next seven Congressional District last thursday. Odds are for Kevin Mccarthy. He is facing a challenge, this is the cover story of cq weekly. The then there is this from weekly standard. A look at Kevin Mccarthy. Anthony, joining us from hackettstown, new jersey. Good morning, democratic line. Caller thank you. I watch cspan because i believe that you bring the news as it truly is. Host you are the one calling in. Let us know. Do not think there will be peace in the middle east until the u. S. Comes to terms with iran. It seems they are behind most of the problems there and the u. S. Just tends to ignore or isolate them. Centuries ght eighth century theocracy is removed, there will never be peace in a rack or syria. I could be wrong, but they seem to be the Guiding Force behind everything that happens in the middle east. The u. S. Tends to ignore it and look more locally instead of iran being the problem throughout the middle east. Of differente stories from inside the Washington Post, iran ready to help iraq, that is from the president there saying that his government is prepared to assist iraq in its fight against okd inspired militants and did not rule out cooperating with the u. S. Against this new wave of extremism. The Iranian Foreign minister has also put a story into the post. We can make a deal, a pledge. Hat they will be peaceful daniel, joining us from goose creek, south carolina. Good morning. Www. Cspan. Org yet caller yes, happy fathers day. Have we not spent enough money in iraq already . Be threears will dollar trillion to six dollar trillion . That is enough blood for america to spend. That is all i had to say, really. Thank you for the call. This headline, the fast strike was years in the making. He makes the following point now that the president is weighing airstrikes as an option in a rack to block the military advance in the country, an examination of its history to its own documents indicates the group has been far more ambitious and effective than the u. S. Officials judged they were as they wound down american involvement in the war. There is also a reference to testimony that took place back in february. This is from Lieutenant General michael flynn, who testified on capitol hill saying that probably there would be an attempt to take territory, similar to what we have seen in syria. Now that the spotlight has shifted, the decision not to arm the rebels at the outset is coming under scrutiny to critics who say the handsoff policy flourish. Remists to larry is joining us from northport, new york. Good morning, your thoughts on all of this . Caller good morning, thank you for cspan. Whether to go to war or have diplomacy really boils down to what is in the heart of these politicians. To me that over the last 20 years going back to bed going back to desert ,torm that when we do go to war it is kind of only halfway. Tojust does not make sense go to war or we tied most of our military peoples arms behind her back and we draw these asginary lines that just go far as baghdad, stop, leaving Saddam Hussein in power, or what we are doing now where we just do not finish the mission. If we are not going to fully objective ofhe winning, it seems to me that we should just leave our men and women home and not get them involved. That is my comment. For the call. U commenting on another call magazine new yorker tying the connection between iran and iraq and the meeting taking place tomorrow. Along with envoys from britain, china, france, and russia, they will be meeting in vienna to work on specific terms for a Nuclear Agreement as washington and tehran find out they have common cause in preventing their their abrupt disintegration. Their longtime strategies appear to be failing as the thugs of the is of the Islamic State burn their way across the country. Twitter pundits already writing about potential the fact though scenarios along with ias i asked targets along with isis , whots to hold them back have been pushing towards baghdad. Iran was the nemesis in iraq. American officials regularly armsing them for providing and strategic guidance to the iraqi militia. The u. S. Ended its combat mission in 2011 and did not leave a residual force behind because a rack under irans Strong Influence refused to sign a status of force agreement, granting immunity to u. S. Troops for acting as criminals according to iraqi laws. A lot of details on the connection between iraq, iran, in the new yorker magazine. Good morning from alexandria, virginia. My uh you my know, i dont want any american to go for their side. They dont take power in that area. They wouldnt take power in that area. Want america to take the sacrifice for them. They are diplomats. Thats it. Thank you. Thank you for the call. James says that extremists did not flourish in a rack, they came from syria. The president in anaheim, california, delivering the commencement address for uc irvine as he spoke about Climate Change and global warming. , joining us from burlington, kentucky. Tom is joining us from burlington, kentucky. Is just my opinion, but they have had these problems over there for thousands of years. We are a country that supposedly tries to stabilize the world. We went in and took out saddam. That theent in and did whole middle east exploded. He was the force keeping out keeping everybody else under control because they were so afraid of him. Dick cheney when he was Vice President said that this would be over with shortly and would pay for itself because we would get the revenue from the oil. Of we have spent trillions dollars and gotten our People Killed and i still dont understand why we are